Stephen K�hn wrote:
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote:
On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen K�hn wrote:
As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a crawl...
Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand.
I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is only a short pause, and everything is running.
I wish I could, but ya see, my system is setup as a global mail server (for Tina and myself) - so the configuration I'm using is system wide, hence not being able to use it from within Evolution; I try to mirror my client's setups; clamd is smaller than calling SA proper.
stephen kuhn - proprietor
Have you considered using amavis-new?
My mailserver is an old 233mmx with 192MB ram and its handling about 1500 mails a day. as well as performing other tasks.
(some days it handles well over 2500 emails, and at least 200 of those are spam dutifully caught by spamassassin)
Its using postfix with amavis-new as a content filter, spamassassin and Trophy/trend filescan/clamd and it gets a hammering but the mail is still as fast as anyone needs it to be.
(its also running secure pop3 and secure imap.)
because amavis-new is a perl daemon, it's loaded into memory upon startup and loads spamassassin in with it, so there is no delay for startup. its been proven that there is no benefit in speed between spamd and mail::spamassassin when the later is loaded into memory by amavis-new already.
Stephen, part of your problem is your dependence on Sendmail, its resource usage and memory footprint are much higher then Postfix or Qmail, and its performance is lower.
I'm about to upgrade my mail server, it's currently mdk9.0 and I'm changing to a much faster machine with Debian Woody with backported versions of the latest postfix/spamassassion/amavis-new/clamd I've already setup a test server and so far it is performing well. (I'm changing the servers all over to debian because their stable release is supported for far longer periods then any mandrake release, and I hate upgrading servers with a passion.)
-- rgds
Franki http://htmlfixit.com
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