On (25/07/05 12:01), Jon Dowland wrote: > On 7/25/05, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks. /etc/default/spamassassin has limits on child processes and > > nicelevel > > as well. > > Can anyone report on what sort of resources are needed to run > spamassassin adequately? Since the upgrade to sarge, SA has totally > killed our virtual machine. We have the lowest-tier bytemark VM (64MB > mem). With a prefork limit of four processes and maximum nice, spamd > still brings it to its knees. How does dspam compare in resources > usage terms? > I'm not sure what quantative data would be of value but if you tell me what output would be useful, I'd be happy to provide it.
We run spamassassin, clamav, exim4 as part of an IMAP server setup, on a 1Ghz PIII with 1Gb memory; it is also running apache/php/postgresql and samba. The child processes are set to a max of 5 and the nice level is the default (ie. unset). Snapshot of top: top - 14:47:37 up 37 days, 4:03, 2 users, load average: 0.23, 0.14, 0.07 Tasks: 94 total, 1 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 15.6% us, 1.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 82.7% id, 0.3% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1036516k total, 1030416k used, 6100k free, 160416k buffers Swap: 979924k total, 24k used, 979900k free, 571464k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 27046 Debian-e 15 0 40500 35m 6512 S 11.0 3.5 2:10.11 spamd 27037 root 16 0 40560 35m 6512 S 3.7 3.5 1:38.95 spamd 27035 Debian-e 15 0 40456 35m 6512 S 1.0 3.5 1:18.22 spamd CPU usage seems to peak at < 20% but only occasionally; often spamd doesn't even show in top. Hope this is of some use. I suspect that the VM memory allocation is the issue but what do I know? ;) I looked at bytemark hosting and it looks pretty good but have yet to decide whether it's better to have your own box hosted, if you're running resource hungry programs. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
