Re: Spamassassin is gragging my server down to its knees

2008-07-31 Thread Henry
Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Henry Ficher, from the post of Mon, 28 Jul: Hi Ira, 1. Run spamassassin --lint -D and check for problems. --lint coes out fine. -D spewes way too much. what am I looking for? The important one is --lint. -D is much more verbose in case of errors. the

Re: Spamassassin is gragging my server down to its knees

2008-07-29 Thread Yuval Hager
On Monday 28 July 2008, Henry Ficher wrote: > 4. See this link: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FasterPerformance Thanks for this link. I didn't know about 'sa-compile' before. Do I need to re-run it every time I change the ruleset? local.cf? -- Yuval Hager [T] +972-77-341-4155 [EMAIL PROT

Re: Spamassassin is gragging my server down to its knees

2008-07-29 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Henry Ficher, from the post of Mon, 28 Jul: > > Hi Ira, > > > 1. Run spamassassin --lint -D and check for problems. --lint coes out fine. -D spewes way too much. what am I looking for? the only things resembling errors are: dbg: metadata: failed to load 'IP::Country::Fast', skipping (lots

Re: Spamassassin is gragging my server down to its knees

2008-07-29 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Oren Held, from the post of Mon, 28 Jul: > Few quick tips: > - Try to see what is the filter which kills your CPU, maybe it's unnecessary? how can I profile that? > - Use the RAZOR2 filter, PYZOR, DCC those slow down the process by a lot, and too many messages get stuck in the queue. l

Re: Spamassassin is gragging my server down to its knees

2008-07-28 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/7/28 Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ever since 9am sharp, my server has jumped to a load average of 5-6 and > is steady up there. I niced spamassassin but it's not much use, the LAMP > is still slow, which means the websites on the server are extremely > slow as it is. I stopped the Apache

Re: Spamassassin is gragging my server down to its knees

2008-07-28 Thread Henry Ficher
Hi Ira, Ira Abramov wrote: ever since 9am sharp, my server has jumped to a load average of 5-6 and is steady up there. I niced spamassassin but it's not much use, the LAMP is still slow, which means the websites on the server are extremely slow as it is. I stopped the Apache and MySQL and the l

Re: Spamassassin is gragging my server down to its knees

2008-07-28 Thread Oren Held
Few quick tips: - Try to see what is the filter which kills your CPU, maybe it's unnecessary? - Use the RAZOR2 filter, PYZOR, DCC - Use bayes filter ("teach" sa using sa-learn) In my place a single-core old AMD handles it pretty well (but I have low traffic). I get about 1-2 false negatives pe

Spamassassin is gragging my server down to its knees

2008-07-28 Thread Ira Abramov
ever since 9am sharp, my server has jumped to a load average of 5-6 and is steady up there. I niced spamassassin but it's not much use, the LAMP is still slow, which means the websites on the server are extremely slow as it is. I stopped the Apache and MySQL and the load does not drop. Spam has fin