Your ram is your limiting factor most likely, SA loves ram. Try increasing RAM and adjusting your spamd spawn processes with the -m option to keep your system from running spamd in the swap file. Search the list for more information on ram and -m (it's been discussed a lot in the last few months).
> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: processing time question > > I have a 1.2Ghz system w/256mb ram running Kmail 1.4.3 on Mandrake 9.0. I > have the filter to call spamc as the last filter, which I assume would > mean > that after all other mail has been deposited in the correct folder > whatever > is left is processed by spamd. Spamd is running constantly. When spamc > is > called it spawns one spamd child process. What my question is according > to > my syslog most spam/ham is processed and identified anywhere from 7-20 > seconds. Why then does it take upwards of 10+ minutes most times for the > child process to finish? I have bayes turned on in my local.cf as well as > auto learn. Could this be contributing to the long run time? I also have > 58 active rule files including the three _uri.cf files running. Also have > RBL checks, razor, pyzor and dcc active. According to SA Stats as shown > below my total time to analyze spam/ham is a little over 50 minutes, but > as > I sat here waiting for spamd to finish running in the latest mail download > so I could finish this message it seemed to take about 15 minutes for it > to > complete its run. > > Spam analysis time : 2567 s ( 107 s/hr) > Ham analysis time : 444 s ( 18 s/hr) > Total analysis time : 3010 s ( 125 s/hr) > > Any advice or hints on how to speed things up would be appreciated since > whenever spamd is processing mail, Kmail is 'frozen' in otherwords I can't > read/write messages. > > Thanks > -- > Chris > Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org > 8:09pm up 12 days, 6:34, 2 users, load average: 3.02, 3.84, 3.46 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Isn't this my STOP?! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Live - From Virgin Radio UK The Doors - Riders On The Storm
