On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:55:37AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <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
And limit the number of child processes that spamd can spawn at one time. Five should be plenty. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
