On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:30:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > after installing spamassassin, my system has become terribly slow! i
Spamassassin consumes enormouse amounts of resources when scanning spam. I ended up disabling it because it was so painful. > thought that it must be becasue spamd is trying to scan all messages. so > i modified ~/.spamassassin/user-prefs. here is how it looks: > > whitelist_from debian* > whitelist_from mutt* > whitelist_from vim* Whitelisting an address just decrements it's spam score by some amount, it doesn't bypass scanning entirely. > now i realize that this has hardly made any difference. for instance, > messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] appear to be coming from the > sender. As above, this wouldn't help anyhow. > kmod - runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped > > what is that? > > when my system was crawling, i tried top and it showed several exim > processes - some of them defunct! Sounds like your system is dieing under the load... > how do i restore sanity with spamassassin on? for writing this e-mail, i > have turned it off Try only letting spamd run 5 concurrent processes at once, that should stop things exploding. It'll take _ages_ to filter all your mail though. -rob
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