[Gllug] Mail server
Nix
nix at esperi.org.uk
Tue Dec 7 23:51:16 UTC 2004
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004, adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk mused:
> My current problem is that I have (for historical reasons) got kmail
> running on a reasonable but not fantastic Athlon 800 MHz/128MB box and
> when I run spamassassin (I get a *lot* of spam) it locks the box up -
Fixes, if you really must run SA from your mailer (ick bleah):
- If the problem is CPU load, use spamd/spamc instead: using
`spamassassin' itself is terribly inefficient.
- If you're using SA 3.0.x, pass --max-children=1, or, if that
slows down SA too much (possible if you get a very large amount of
spam indeed), apply the patch
<http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/attachment.cgi?id=2527&action=view>,
which uses the Apache preforking algorithm to reduce and increase the
number of SA children appropriately. In SA 3.0.x by default, the
children are round-robined, which increases SA's already substantial
memory hit by about a factor of five in the default configuration
(which has --max-children=5).
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