On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 00:18, Chris wrote: > 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.
I just turned off "bigevil"; reckon I'll have to go through each different set to see which is being a hog... It's just bloody amazing the amount of spam that's been coming in - it's almost becoming an obsession with me to kill it all... stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. -- Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"
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