On Monday 11 July 2005 14:50, JamesDR wrote: > Chavdar Videff wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Our mailserver server serves about 100 users. Our config: > > Sendmail+Procmail+SpamAssassin. > > The question is: > > If I got it right, we should run sa-learn for each user in order to > > benefit from bayes. We intend to run a cron job for each user and do it > > at night by supplying a daily snapshot of our spam and ham collections to > > sa-learn. Can our mailserver handle it (256 MB RAM, Celeron 400 Mhz)? > > A weekly collection run for 1 user usually eats 100% of CPU load. My > > concern is whether the system is going to crash or just do the job slower > > and if you can point out how many sa-learn tasks could we run > > simultaneously with our setup. > > All hints will be appreciated, for we scheduled an initial load for 16 > > users of the big collection of spam received so far. > > > > Thanks guys > > > > Chavdar Videff > > What kind of Bayes db are you using? We use MySQL here and haven't seen > SA-Learn use up that much cpu... I've run it manually up to 10 processes > at once without any noticeable slowing of the machine. (p2 450mhz, 256mb)
I guess it is BerkeleyDB, the default installation on Debian. The ineteresting part is that while testing cron on one user the cpu fall was not noticeable. Chavdar Videff
