Can you give us a top report during one of the slow times? Also, are you running rules per user, per site, razor, dcc, etc?
Gary -----Original Message----- From: Richard Bewley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 4:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Slow performance > I'm not a wizard on how to set up any form of Unix mail system, so I may be > talking through my hat here. But I *think* the traditional way to deal with > this is to use spamd to drive spamc, and then set the configuration options > for the number of spamc threads that you want to run in parallel. > Loren Here is part of ps fax: 726 ? S 0:21 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -m100 -H 14107 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -m100 -H 14219 ? D 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -m100 -H 14221 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -m100 -H 14233 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -m100 -H 792 ? S 0:14 /usr/libexec/postfix/master 817 ? S 0:00 \_ pipe -n spamassassin -t unix user=nobody argv=/us 824 ? S 0:00 \_ pipe -n spamassassin -t unix user=nobody argv=/us 14199 ? S 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] tyw 14216 ? Z 0:00 | \_ [spamc <defunct>] 14217 ? S 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/postdrop -r 832 ? S 0:00 \_ pipe -n spamassassin -t unix user=nobody argv=/us 871 ? S 0:00 \_ pipe -n spamassassin -t unix user=nobody argv=/us 880 ? S 0:00 \_ pipe -n spamassassin -t unix user=nobody argv=/us 14203 ? S 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] inna 14230 ? Z 0:00 | \_ [spamc <defunct>] 14231 ? S 0:00 | \_ /usr/sbin/postdrop -r Is there any other way to call spamassassin besides with spamc like I'm doing? Thanks, Richard