On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:57:23PM -0500, Jason Little wrote: > > We had that problem in the past until we started using the access list in > sendmail to filter out servers that were just hitting us with spam all the > time. I still go through our logs daily and add to it as needed. The > reduction in load on the server was very dramatic. Since our server is a > forwarding server we also reject email addresses in the access list to > further drop the load because spamassassin never needs to scan it. > > Jason Little > Network Admin > Mint Inc >
I would certainly endorse anything to decrease the incoming load. We use qmail and implemented the goodrctto-12.patch which rejects emails at smtp time that are not in a list of valid recipients. This hugely (>80%) decreased the volume of accepted incoming mail which, obviously, hugely decreased the traffic through spamassassin. Ollie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:50 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: razor and dcc : high cpu load > > Rejaine Monteiro wrote: > > my system had a high cpu load with spamassassin with network tests , > > dcc + razor and fuzzy_ocr because off this, we are considering disable > > razor or dcc from tests... > > > > but we have doubt about which is better: disable razor or dcc? > > > > any recomendations?? > > If the decision is between DCC and Razor, I would keep Razor. > > However, neither one of them should contribute much to a high CPU load. > They can cause delays waiting for responses from the servers, but they don't > really do enough to raise the load significantly. > > Fuzzy_ocr or a bad rule is a more likely candidate for eating cpu time. > > -- > Bowie > -- |---------------------------| | Ollie Acheson | | Morristown, NJ | |---------------------------|
