Re: setup spamassassin without amavisd

2012-07-09 Thread Henrik K
On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 04:40:31PM -0500, Dave Funk wrote: On 07/08/2012 12:49 PM, David Kentwood wrote: Hi, I want to setup spamassassin + clamav + postfix. Many internet guides use Amavisd to integrate them together. However, my vps has only 516mb ram so I don't want to install Amavisd

Perl, fork, and copy-on-write (was Re: setup spamassassin without amavisd)

2012-07-09 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:06:39 +0300 Henrik K h...@hege.li wrote: You can easily run many children since amavisd or spamd forks are copy-on-writed pretty well. So only extra memory used is the per scan state and file data etc. Have you actually measured this? My experience is that forked Perl

Re: Perl, fork, and copy-on-write (was Re: setup spamassassin without amavisd)

2012-07-09 Thread Henrik K
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 04:06:48AM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:06:39 +0300 Henrik K h...@hege.li wrote: You can easily run many children since amavisd or spamd forks are copy-on-writed pretty well. So only extra memory used is the per scan state and file data etc.

Re: setup spamassassin without amavisd

2012-07-09 Thread David Kentwood
Thank you all for your replies. I have carefully considered all of your suggestions and decided to try the Amavisd setup. According to some suggestions here and various online sources, Amavisd is fast, scalable, easy to use and highly configurable. It loads up without spamd, and can handles spam

Re: setup spamassassin without amavisd

2012-07-09 Thread Per Jessen
David Kentwood wrote: Hi, I want to setup spamassassin + clamav + postfix. Many internet guides use Amavisd to integrate them together. However, my vps has only 516mb ram so I don't want to install Amavisd unless it's really recommended. So would the setup work well without using Amavisd?

Re: setup spamassassin without amavisd

2012-07-09 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-07-09 08:06, Henrik K skrev: I just ditch main.cld which seems pointless, I think it saved something like 40-50MB. If there are actually ever any new viruses, daily.cld should catch them. With this and most 3rd party sigs, clamd is only 80MB RSS. so you think that virus that are

Re: setup spamassassin without amavisd

2012-07-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 7/9/2012 5:42 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Den 2012-07-09 08:06, Henrik K skrev: I just ditch main.cld which seems pointless, I think it saved something like 40-50MB. If there are actually ever any new viruses, daily.cld should catch them. With this and most 3rd party sigs, clamd is

Re: setup spamassassin without amavisd

2012-07-09 Thread Henrik K
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:29:08AM -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 7/9/2012 5:42 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Den 2012-07-09 08:06, Henrik K skrev: I just ditch main.cld which seems pointless, I think it saved something like 40-50MB. If there are actually ever any new viruses, daily.cld