On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:32:48AM -0800, Daniel Quinlan wrote: >Michael Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> While I was downloading mail tonight, ps -ef|grep procmail returned 90 >> procmail -f processes running. It took about 20 minutes to process >> all of those messages. > >Running fewer than 90 procmail processes at a time is probably a good >place to start. If you're also running a large number of SpamAssassin >processes at the same time, it will kill your performance. Perhaps a >sendmail user can help you out with that one. > >When downloading a lot of mail at once, it might make sense to use a >local instance of spamd/spamc instead of the spamassassin script. That >will probably get you a nice speed-up, even with the procmail problem. >
Thanks for the advice. I made the changes and it does seem to work much faster.
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