martin f krafft wrote: > Every now and then, coincidence will have it that 10 or 20 users > invoke spamassassin at the same time. Spamassassin is a resource > hog and that will cause the machine to basically become unusable, > with the load going to 30 and higher. > Obviously, I have put limits on local deliveries so that postfix > itself does not ever screw up the machine. Now I need to limit the > local users. Other than PAM limits, which seems to only work on > number of processes, is there a way to dynamically limit the load > a shell-user can cause? I am talking load-balancing ... give each > user 100% unless others want slices too.
What if you wrote a shell wrapper around SpamAssassin that lowered its priority before running it, then had your users run this wrapper instead? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
