On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 19:00, Ryan Ferguson wrote:
> I am running Redhat AS 3.0 and SA 2.63 with sendmail and
> spamass-milter.  I will start by mentioning the following:
> 
> - I am processing about 10,000 msgs / hour
> - This is a dual proc 3.2GHz Zeon with 2G of RAM.  The system is not
> swapping at all (based on vmstat)
> - I have already fixed the UTF8 issue
> - I am not running any external checks (have run with spamd -L and
> still have the same issue)
> - I have disabled the Bayes stuff (from the local.cf file)
> - I am not running the auto white list stuff (from the local.cf file)
> 
> Now for the fun partâ  I am hitting loads of 10+ on the server on a
> regular basis which makes sendmail back off (I know how to fix the
> sendmail issue so please do not comment on that).
> 
> I have tried everything I can think of to take the load off the system
> but nothing is working for me. 

> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can try next?  Any help is
> greatly appriciatedâ
> 
> - Ryan

Implement greylisting.  If large portion of the email coming in is spam
you can block 98% or better of the spam from every getting to
spamassassin.  

-- 
Scot L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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