On Mon Dec 16, 2002 at 08:47:00AM -0800, the boisterous Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> wrote to me: > If you use spamc, which is the daemonized version of spamassassin, it > will run somewhat faster, since it is written in C rather than perl. > It only helps a little, however, since it still needs to invoke > multiple exim processes. I ended up also running fetchmail as a daemon > as well, getting messages from my ISP every ten minutes or so to avoid > being overrun by a large number of concurrent messages. I'm using somewhat the same configuration. But I upgraded last weekend from woody to sarge and noticed, that spamassassin is terrible slow. many sa processes fill up my memory and my computer gets unusable (for about half an hour!). I didn't change my config, but woody's SA was mileages faster. So I decided to start a spamd and exchange spamassassin with spamc and voila, it works. So long Thomas -- ___ Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. _/___\ - W. Richard Stevens ( ^ > Thomas Krennwallner <krennwallner at aon dot at> / \ 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B (__\/_)_ http://members.aon.at/krennwallner/
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