Enabling the spamassassin daemon and checking mail for spam in daemon mode has made a huge difference.
The exim change is interesting. This would involve changing the exim line in inet.d to /usr/sbin/exim exim -bd -q3min , changin the smtp_accept_queue_per_connection line to 50 in /etc/exim/exim.conf , and probably eliminating the exim cron job in /etc/cron.d. Is this correct? Do I really need to run the exim daemon that often? The cron.d file states a 15 minute interval for the nondaemon exim. Actually the spamd change worked well enough that I'm tempted not to try the exim changes. Tony On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:17:33AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Anthony and Mary Ann Tantillo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have begun using spamassassin (2.01) with razor (1.19) as a mailfilter > > in combination with fetchmail (5.9.8), procmail (3.2.2), and exim (3.3.4). > > When I fetch a large number of messages (e.g. when I first startup the > > computer), response slows to a crawl. If I monitor the processes using > > top, spamassassin processes start to fill the screen. > > > On a recent download of 119 messages, top indicated that linux began > > to shutdown processes to accomodate the load (mysqld was one of the > > first to go). What am I doing wrong? I copied the procmail formula > > from the example at the top of the .procmailrc file and even shortened > > my list of filters that I have been using. I thought that there might > > be a procmail backup. > > See my own recent mail on this topic. I suspect you're running out of > system resources, likely memory, process table entries, or file handles. > There are hard limits to what's available to you, and you're best off > configuring your system to keep yourself within these limits. > > I'd check the following: > > - How are you running spamassassin? I'd *very* strongly recommend > daemon/client mode rather than standalone mode. This is about an > order of magnitude faster to process, and should naturally serialize > your spamassassin processing. > > - How are you running exim? I'd disable inetd/xinetd execution, and > run the server in daemon mode instead. Set your queue run interval > to something small -- I use 2-3 minutes. Set your messages to > process in a single instance to a middlin' value -- I'm currently at > about 50 messages at a shot. > > > My computer has a 800 MHz Duron with 128 MB of RAM and 512 MB of swap. > > Should be plenty of oomph. > > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org >
