[clue-admin] SpamAssasin is Really Bogging the Server

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:32:15 -0700
Jeff Cann wrote:

> While spamd was not running, I watched top for a while.  I noticed that
> python jobs from mailman are consuming what seems to me an inordinate
> amount of CPU - - over 90% of the CPU:

Or maybe it throws water on my theory.

Is spam volume significantly higher now than 6 months ago?

I had assumed that the difficulty lay in SpamAssasin running all the mail
traffic through a Bayesian analysis. If it's Mailman that's the resource
hog, then ... I dunno. But I hadn't noticed any issues with the server
responsiveness prior to us running SpamAssasin.

I note that FC by default sets up some reporting stuff, but I've never
looked at how to configure it. See /var/log/sa/ --
http://jamesthornton.com/redhat/linux/8.0/System-Administration-Primer/s1-resource-tools.html
has a quicky mention of these files.

jed
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