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 > thought that it must be becasue spamd is trying to scan all messages. so > i modified ~/.spamassassin/user-prefs. here is how it looks:
I had same problem when I was trying to get spamassassin to run on a 486 (and it worked without loading the machine :) The things you should do is: * change the mailer to queue all messages and not process them * run the queue from cron every minute or two to process only one mail at a time to N number of mails (so that one cron job finishes b/f the next one starts) * use spamd/spamc instread of loading the perl engine all the time. * make spamd run on nice 19 Then the system will not be loaded at all and there will be very little chance of getting any DOS attacks [lol, thinking back, debian mailing list could do a DOS on the old 486 if I got more than 5 mails and all of them stared spamassassin, not spamc.. hehe] Hope this helps, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
