[afnog] Spamassassin with postfix

[Antonio Godinho]

Hi,

I am not using any of DCC / Pyzor / Razor .
The processor is a P4 2.00GHz.
I don't see it being a RAM problem as it does not swap. MOst of the time I 
only see about 3 at most perl processes running.

Cheers,

AG


On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:05:01 +0200, Phil Regnauld wrote
> 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


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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP+I, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
CIUEM
Maputo
Mozambique