Re: Performance Issues with Spamassassin
That sounds good. I noticed that Debian sets up the spamd
daemon to run as root. Is there any reason to run the daemon as a
non-root user on a standalone system (assuming the firewall is set up
correctly)? The README.spamd.gz file talks about this
Tony
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:42:06PM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:33:21PM -0500, Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo wrote:
> > I have begun using spamassassin (2.01) with razor (1.19) as a mailfilter
> > in combination with fetchmail (5.9.8), procmail (3.2.2), and exim (3.3.4).
> > When I fetch a large number of messages (e.g. when I first startup the
> > computer), response slows to a crawl. If I monitor the processes using
> > top, spamassassin processes start to fill the screen. On a
> <snip>
>
> You should consider running spamassassin as a daemon (spamd). This
> should greatly reduce the processing time, as well as the resource
> hoggery.
>
> Edit /etc/default/spamassassin, run /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart,
> and have your procmail recipe use /usr/bin/spamc -f
>
> You'll probably want to firewall out tcp port 783 to prevent people from
> hitting your new spamd.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Chris Hilts
> chilts@birdbrained.org
>
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