> > I have been under the apparently false presumption that spamd prcessed > > its messages in memory (perhaps this explains why each spamd process can > > oft take up to 25% cpu?). I recently looked in /tmp and found lots of > > left over spamassassin.xxxx.xxxxxx.tmp files (the first four x's are > > numeric, the second set of x's are alpha-numeric). > > > > I am interested in placing those files in a tmpfs, but do not want to > > put my whole /tmp directory under tmpfs.... but I can't for the life of > > me find any configuration settings that tell spamd where to place its > > temp files. Do I need to change something in the code itself? > > nope -- setting the std env var TMPDIR will do it. those files are > created if you're using Pyzor or DCC.
Thank you kindly! Might I ask if anyone else has gone with any type of ramdisk for this directory and if so if it helped in any way (just five minutes running it so far; I don't see any significant performance gain)? I am wondering how to size it as well. I have started out with a 64MB tmpfs, but not sure if I'll need more. I am tempted to size it similar to the following recommendation from a how-to for creating a ramdisk for amavis: n * (1 + max(expansionfactor)) * $message_size_limit Thoughts anyone? What else could be eating up so much CPU?? > > Pointers to anything I missed or other help greatly appreciated! I am > > running 3.0rc5 (as I understand it, only documentation changes were made > > between rc5 and the official release), Fedora core 2, 2.8GHtz > > hyperthreaded Pentium IV, 1 GB RAM, spamc out of Courier Maildrop to > > spamd. Spamd pounds my system all day long (cpu but not memory). I run > > max-children beween 5 and 8 (and all user prefs in (My)SQL, as well as > > AWL and Bayes, although I cannot run bayes/awl without mail backing up, > > as it appears to be too slow). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
