On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 17:03 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 17:44 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > Thanks for the input John, I can accept 30 or 45 seconds of drive access
> > however when it comes to 300 I can't accept that. And you're absolutely
> > correct, the problem is my lack of memory I realize that now. 
> 
> > Just one user, me, though I already have procmail setup to not pass mail
> > destined for mailing list through SA or ClamAv. I had SA set to check
> > message size less than 250k in my procmailrc I've dropped it to 50k and
> 
> Unless the limit of 50k results in quite some spam ending up unprocessed
> by SA, I doubt this will help.
> 
> Dropping large-ish third-party rule sets, if any, is much more likely to
> make a noticeable difference. SA, as well as ClamAV. If memory serves me
> right, you are using ClamAV third-party signatures -- some of which have
> been reported to hog memory galore.
> 
> 
> > will see what happens. I could probably drop some of the extra rulesets
> > I run also which would probably cut down on access until I can upgrade
> > my memory. I'm going to consider this thread closed then as being solved
> > with "upgrade to more memory". Many thanks to all who replied and
> > offered suggestions. And to the SA Team, keep up the great work!
> 
> Since you mentioned procmail, your spamc calling recipe is *with*
> locking, right? Limiting concurrent SA processes pretty much to one as
> far as filtering is concerned. (As Bernd and previously others in this
> thread have pointed out, limit the concurrency.)
> 
> 
I believe I have this right Karsten

:0 fw : $ASSASSINLOCK
* < 150000 
| /usr/local/bin/spamc -f

I've trimmed my third party rule sets down to the sought rules and
disabled unnecessary rule sets I had setup in my local.cf

-- 
Chris
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