From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I run SA 3.1 on a home system which gets about 200 - 250 msgs a day, the
majority being spam of course. I have 768mb of ram with a swap of 612mb,
an AMD Sempron 1.6GHz processor. This is how spamd is started from
the /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin script:
OPTIONS="-d -c -H -m 2 --max-conn-per-child=100 --min-children=2"
Does this look like an optimum setting or can it be tweaked better?
For 3.0x this is not right. But 3.1 may have added --min-children.
I'd use --max-children=2 anyway. You absolutely positively do not
want to run into swapping. If you have anything else running, like
an X session, you're toast with more than a couple children. Besides,
for 200 - 250 messages a day you probably don't really need more than
one child floating around at any given time. Also the affect on your
machine of a --max-conn-per-child of say 15 or so is rather minimal.
That's what I use here for 1000 to 1500 emails a day here.
"-d -c -m3 -Hi -A 192.168.X.,127. --max-conn-per-child=15"
The -A restricts the addresses from which spamd will accept connections.
It's probably not needed. But it adds a little depth to the system's
security. Machines on the other 192.168.Y. subnets are blocked.
{^_^}
