Hi... I have done tests with 10 processes, 30, 50, 100 and the
results are the same...  I have 4 Gb RAM and spamd is not running... 

   Regards. 


On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:01 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote:

> Luis Croker wrote:
> >     Hi all...
> > 
> >     I continue with slow delivery in my mail server. Like I told you,
> > the filters are working well, but the mail queue some times is big
> > and slow.  
> > 
> >     I have read http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FasterPerformance
> > and I did some chages to try to get performance. This changes are: 
> > 
> > -I installed a DNS server locally, in the same server.
> > -I turned off DCC, Razor and Pyzor.
> > -I set the bayes use to 0.
> 
> > and I have the same number of procs for amavisd:
> > $max_servers = 100;
> 
> 100 amavisd processes???  That looks like your problem.  How much
> memory do you have?   Assuming that each process needs 50M
> (conservative), this would be 5GB of ram just for amavisd.  This doesn't
> count your mail server, antivirus, dns, etc.
> 
> Lower the number of amavisd processes so that the system doesn't go into
> swap.  Swap is the #1 killer of SA performance.  Also, if you are
> calling SA through amavisd, make sure you don't have spamd running.
> Amavisd runs SA internally and doesn't need spamd.
> 


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