My setup is as follows: FreeBSD 4.10, SpamAssassin 3.0.4, Perl 5.8
Using Bayes and a pile 'o SARE rules.It scanned 34484 messages last night and the only time we see lags is when the bayes database is expiring.
The startup script is as follows: /usr/local/bin/spamd --max-children=6 --max-conn-per-child=20 -d -x -u daemon -s local0" HTH, Tom