-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Derrick Hudson stated:
>| I have currently got the mail box at 3.5 with a queue delivery of 10 >| minutes, this I am increasing to 20 minutes as it hits inbounds >| anyway. Sometimes it can take me upto 30 minutes just to bring the >| first batch of mail in. > > The 30 minutes includes SA scanning, right? By setting > queue_deliver_load_max you can skip the SA scanning until later. Just > set the value low enough that your system still runs ok so that > fetchmail can pull in the messages and feed them to exim. You want > that to happen as fast as possible (so you don't need to sit on the > line) and let exim store all the messages on the queue. Then, at your > system's leisure, let exim process the queue; which includes scanning > by SA. I am trying this but still be limited. Still I am getting there I think. >| My Mailbox has 24 mb on it > > Oh, that's a limiting factor too. spamd takes up about 8MB on its > own. It should share most (if not all) of that when it forks, but you > don't want more than 2 or maybe 3 spamd's running at a time. It does > hold the entire message in memory as it runs all the tests against it. > I bet that, as you have it, you're running into a memory shortage and > hitting swap a lot. By doing that you really slow down the system's > operation as it must wait on the (slow!, by comparison) disk for > memory accesses. Putting more memory in the system will likely give > you the biggest performance boost over any other upgrade you could > try. Unfortunately you probably need EDO RAM and that is more > expensive nowadays than SDRAM. > > Use the -m option on spamd to limit how many children it will attempt > to spawn. I think exim also has an option to limit how many > (parallel) delivery processes it will run ... hmm, I only see > remote_max_parallel right now and that isn't going to help you. > This is the biggest factor that I have, I cannot justify the cost of a new PC when I am not working and semi retired due to ill health. I was considering putting SA on a 486 with 24mb of ram, have nothing else running on the box so the box is given over to SA. Sean - -- Sean Rima http://www.tcob1.net Linux User: 231986 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE VIEWS EXPRESSED HERE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF MY WIFE. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GPG for Secure Mail iD8DBQE9BiLfeR/L2ZZp3E8RApRuAKCALKqGaUEAR02tsMoOnTNec1QcxwCfZpxg u3HUwf614THEQAijsA8dwXU= =Ae7B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
