> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:35:20AM +0200, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hi list > > > > however, once the mails received go higher than 50 at one time, the > > CPU load shoots up to 90% or higher. and when this happens the mail > > server becomes very slow and sometimes users complain that they are > > not able to download their mails anymore. > > > > i noticed that the CPU used by spamd when checking one mail can go > > from 3 to 6 %. is there a tuning we can tune spamassassin so that it > > doesnt burden the CPU too much? > > Seperate the two functions. Run spamd on a dedicated box with lots > of CPU and memory. Disk is not terribly important. Just add -d > spamd.box.domain to you spamc invocation on the mail server. > > Of course, you probably need to use a userprefs database in that case, > rather than the userprefs in each user's home directory. It > is working > splendidly for my ISP in that configuration. We haven't seen any > appreciable load increase on the mail servers since beginning use of > SpamAssassin site wide. >
Is spamd threaded? I see the PID jump around alot on high volume. 44,000 out of 600,000 messages were not scanned via spamassassin... I assume because the spamd daemon did not answer. I'm running it via daemontools, but have tried it both ways. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
