On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 04:59 +0000, Russ Sanders wrote: > I have an Ubuntu Linux server running SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.4 > running > on Perl 5.8.8 with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.008). I have at least one > account that is having to process from 250 - 400 emails, 99% spam, per HOUR. > This works out to be approximately 8,000 emails per day. The spamassassin > just > can't keep up and it is backing the Queue upto 2500 messages. I have made an > adjustment so that the one user can have multiple spamd children running for > it, > but it doesn't seem to take on more that 2 spamd children. > You might also consider implementing greylisting on your MTA.
When my ISP did so the spam volume dropped immediately from 80% of the mail I was receiving to between 4% and 8%. I run my own copy of SA. The CPU overheads of greylisting are much lower than those of SA. Martin
