[afnog] Spamassassin with postfix

[Phil Regnauld]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:08:47PM +0200, Antonio Godinho wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have the below result of top on my FreeBSD box which runs FreeBSD 5.2 with 
> postfix and spamassassin. The box also does NAT.
> 
> It seems the spamassassin consumes most of the CPU, many times it is around 
> 98% as well. This is happening even though I don't have any internal mails 
> being sent out and have very few mails coming in (around 20/min). Is this 
> normal for spamassassin?

	Yes, depending on:

	CPU size ?
	RAM ?
	How many scanning processes are running in parallel ?
	Are you using DCC / Pyzor / Razor ?
	How many rules are loaded ?

	You are not swapping it appears, so it shouldn't be a RAM issue.

> 
> last pid:  5533;  load averages:  2.39,  2.05,  
> 1.95                                                 up 0+01:27:03  13:05:38
> 86 processes:  6 running, 80 sleeping
> CPU states: 83.9% user,  0.0% nice, 16.1% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> Mem: 211M Active, 167M Inact, 93M Wired, 1508K Cache, 73M Buf, 147M Free
> Swap: 512M Total, 512M Free