You use Bayes? Have you tried turning off auto_expire? From my expierence this can cause significant performance issues. Moreover, have you tried turning off bayes? without bayes scanning too a quarter of a second per email on a 2cpu, 8GB standard i686 arch, sa compiled as 32-bit app.
Philipp > On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:40, Steven Stern wrote: >> Have you tried running a local caching name server? That can cut >> down on times to do repetitive name lookups. > > > Yes indeed, it's something we've always had on mail servers even > before we had SpamAssassin, for exactly that reason. > > Thanks, > mrj > -- > Mark Rigby-Jones, System Operations Manager > CI-Net, Network House, Langford Locks, Kidlington, OX5 1GA > CI-Net is the trading name for Community Internet plc > A company registered in England and Wales number 3155758 > t: 01865 856009 m: 07747 862201 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: www.ci-net.com > >