On Sunday 25 July 2004 08:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: > As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu > time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified > the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to > only have one instance of it; why, all of a sudden, is it eating my cpu > alive? The only thing I've recently changed is to add more rulesets for > spamassassin...and I've very carefully followed the directions on the > spamassassin faq for performance/memory problems; this being the 2.6.3-7 > kernel, is there something else I'm doing wrong or have I missed > something? I used to HAVE performance - now it is slowly coming to a > crawl... >
Stephen, first of all, are you running the bigevil set and the blacklist set? If so, thats a killer right there. Are you running any of the SURBL sets? I'm running a total of 21 rules, not counting my local.cf, and my manual whitelist. Are you using any of the network tests? Do you have autolearn off or on in your local.cf? Since I got rid of the big rule sets, turned autolearn off, started using network tests and the surbl's my load usually runs about 60% or less for the few seconds it takes to process mail through spamd. Thats on a 1.2GHz system with only 256mb ram. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 9:02am up 26 days, 14:24, 3 users, load average: 0.52, 0.56, 0.45 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'd like some JUNK FOOD ... and then I want to be ALONE -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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