SpamAssassin 3 memory usage

[ovsoft]

Hello,
my spamd (version 3.01) takes 31Mb per child... is this normal? Can it be reduced?

 

[blacknight]

Have a look on the spamassassin users list
Short answer = no

 

[nobaloney]

Edit 12/11/04 09:25:
But you can reduce the maximum SpamAssassin usage
by reducing the amount of spam that spamassassin
sees.

We recently started managing a system for a client who was getting tens of thousands of spams a day... or at least it seed as if he was; undeliverable spams in his outgoing queue it close to a half million. His load average would go as high as 50 and his email system was so impacted he was hardly getting email.

We rebuilt his ancient exim.conf to use blocking (SpamBlocker) and he has control of his inboxes again.

SpamAssassin is an excellent tool, but with the amount of spam many servers get today you need a lot of power to run it.

Which is why I recommend SpamBlocker (built in to DA; you only have to turn it on) every chance I get.

(Another reason is I wrote it .)

Jeff

 

[blacknight]

Which is why I recommend SpamBlocker (built in to DA; you only have to turn it on) every chance I get.

(Another reason is I wrote it .)

Jeff

And your answer does little to address his query. He asked about one thing specifically and you answer with something else.

 

[nobaloney]

The answer is "no". As duly noted in a previous post.

I attempted to point out that one way to reduce total SpamAssassin usage is to block a lot of the Spam before it gets to SpamAssassin.

I'm sorry I didn't make that more clear in my post.

I'll edit it.

Jeff

 

[ovsoft]

Ok, I fully activated SpamBlocker and now SA works less, but child size remains big... maybe I should reduce rule sets?

 

[xgeek]

Ok, I fully activated SpamBlocker and now SA works less, but child size remains big... maybe I should reduce rule sets?

How do you "fully activated SpamBlocker"?

Ihave the latest buld of DA.

Thanks