On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 16:41, Sam Varghese wrote: > I'm writing to find out how much overhead will be created by running > SpamAssassin on a P-133 which is already handling quite a few tasks. Assuming you run SpamAssassin in daemon mode (via spamc/spamd), I don't think you'll have any problems. The main problem lies in the overhead when SpamAssassin is invoked in standalone mode. I seen tremendous improvements in speed after I started running spamd and did spam checking via procmail/spamc. The only thing I can say is to try it and see what happens. If it performs to your satisfaction, great. If not, you'll have to look into something else. FWIW, SpamAssassin here runs on a FreeBSD 4.8 box which runs SMTP (qmail), POP3 (qmail's pop3d), IMAP (courier-imap) and LDAP (OpenLDAP) daemons. The machine is only a P200 with 32 MB of RAM, and the delays introduced by mail scanning with SpamAssassin aren't even noticeable. YMMV. HTH, j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> <http://www.gaddis.org>
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