> >>Normal system load averages 0.15, with about 5 spamd processes running. > >>Peak load varies, very occasionally going above 8, with around 30 spamd > >>processes at once. This system has been processing about 20,000 messages > >>per day lately. > > > > > > Thanks for the good info. I'm glad to hear that spamd *should* work > without > > being as CPU-intensive as it has been for me. We are on a Pentium IV > with > > 1GB RAM and recieve at our peak around 200 msgs/min. (actual peak is > > something like 280, but we average closer to 100, about 40K msgs go > through > > SA each day). > > > > The kicker is that with only 5 spamd children, I see each child eating up > on > > average something like 20% CPU... it is not unusual to see spamd > processes at > > 40% or even 50%. I have not installed custom rules, have not done > anything > > except install the software. I use SQL-based prefs and Bayes (but bayes > is > > off since even w/out bayes, we see a load of around 17 during business > hours > > and mail is always on the borderline of backing up)... we use a ramdisk > > (tmpfs) for the directory that DCC unpacks messages, we run a local named > DNS > > server, and set the LANG environment variable to en_US before startup. > > Hi, > > We run 10 spamd children and process an average of 350K messages a day > on a P4 2.4 Ghz (not hyper) with 2 gigs of RAM. The machine never swaps > and also never stops. Load is usually around 1.5 - 3.0 as it is always > processing spam. > > We use bayes and awl in Berkeley DB format with network tests enabled > (most rbl's are hosted locally and dnscache is running locally as well > with 144 megs assigned to it) > > Current snapshot on a slow Friday night is > > last pid: 31168; load averages: 1.13, 2.02, 1.84 up 112+09:32:07 > 19:51:23
What amount of CPU do your spamd processes take? I just attempted to run with -L flag in case we were having DNS problems. But there was no change in CPU usage. Also just installed and recompiled from the official 3.0.0 release; no difference :( Finally, I just commented spamd out of maildrop and turned on SA inside of amavisd-new, and now amavisd-new is pounding the CPU just like spamd was. Averaging around 30%, but even 50% not too unusual. Also note that although I have everything in SQL (user prefs, bayes, awl), that I have bayes and awl disabled until I figure this out. And I have installed no custom rulesets, nothing extra beside whatever comes 100% stock. What in the world is going on? Isn't it true that spamd (beside DCC) does its thing w/out disk I/O? If so, what else could be chewing up so much CPU? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
