<quote who="Laurie Savage"> > When I download my mail via fetchmail/procmail spamassassin chokes my > system (lose mouse, keyboard input takes over a minute to respond etc). It > records lots of PIDs when I run top. Yesterday it did this for 15 minutes. > > How can I prevent this?
Run spamd, the spamassassin daemon, and use spamc in procmail instead of spamassassin. The 'spamassassin' executable is all perl, so for every mail, your machine is bringing up perl, loading all the spamassassin modules, reading the rule files, etc. If you use spamd, it's all loaded once, and the little C executable client, spamc, will pass stuff to it. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ "I allege that SCO is full of it, and that the Linux process is already the most transparent process in the whole industry." - Linus Torvalds -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
