> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >>Normal system load averages 0.15, with about 5 spamd processes running.
> >>Peak load varies, very occasionally going above 8, with around 30 spamd
> >>processes at once. This system has been processing about 20,000 messages
> >>per day lately.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the good info. I'm glad to hear that spamd *should* work
> without
> > being as CPU-intensive as it has been for me. We are on a Pentium IV
> with
> > 1GB RAM and recieve at our peak around 200 msgs/min. (actual peak is
> > something like 280, but we average closer to 100, about 40K msgs go
> through
> > SA each day).
> >
> > The kicker is that with only 5 spamd children, I see each child eating up
> on
> > average something like 20% CPU... it is not unusual to see spamd
> processes at
> > 40% or even 50%. I have not installed custom rules, have not done
> anything
> > except install the software. I use SQL-based prefs and Bayes (but bayes
> is
> > off since even w/out bayes, we see a load of around 17 during business
> hours
> > and mail is always on the borderline of backing up)... we use a ramdisk
> > (tmpfs) for the directory that DCC unpacks messages, we run a local named
> DNS
> > server, and set the LANG environment variable to en_US before startup.
>
> Hi,
>
> We run 10 spamd children and process an average of 350K messages a day
> on a P4 2.4 Ghz (not hyper) with 2 gigs of RAM. The machine never swaps
> and also never stops. Load is usually around 1.5 - 3.0 as it is always
> processing spam.
>
> We use bayes and awl in Berkeley DB format with network tests enabled
> (most rbl's are hosted locally and dnscache is running locally as well
> with 144 megs assigned to it)
>
> Current snapshot on a slow Friday night is
>
> last pid: 31168; load averages: 1.13, 2.02, 1.84 up 112+09:32:07
> 19:51:23
May I ask either of you how you installed SA? I am pretty much at a loss...
just grabbing for whatever I can get at this point...
Thanks -
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