Re: Performance Issues with Spamassassin
Actually, I just realized that if I comment out the exim line in
inetd.conf the exim daemon will be started in /etx/init.d/exim.
Tony
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:17:33AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo (amtantillo@earthlink.net) 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 recent download of 119 messages, top indicated that linux began
> > to shutdown processes to accomodate the load (mysqld was one of the
> > first to go). What am I doing wrong? I copied the procmail formula
> > from the example at the top of the .procmailrc file and even shortened
> > my list of filters that I have been using. I thought that there might
> > be a procmail backup.
>
> See my own recent mail on this topic. I suspect you're running out of
> system resources, likely memory, process table entries, or file handles.
> There are hard limits to what's available to you, and you're best off
> configuring your system to keep yourself within these limits.
>
> I'd check the following:
>
> - How are you running spamassassin? I'd *very* strongly recommend
> daemon/client mode rather than standalone mode. This is about an
> order of magnitude faster to process, and should naturally serialize
> your spamassassin processing.
>
> - How are you running exim? I'd disable inetd/xinetd execution, and
> run the server in daemon mode instead. Set your queue run interval
> to something small -- I use 2-3 minutes. Set your messages to
> process in a single instance to a middlin' value -- I'm currently at
> about 50 messages at a shot.
>
> > My computer has a 800 MHz Duron with 128 MB of RAM and 512 MB of swap.
>
> Should be plenty of oomph.
>
> Peace.
>
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