SpamAssassin timed out and was killed... box too slow?

[Tony Finch]

Vasantha Narayanan <vnarayan at HAVERFORD.EDU> wrote:
>
>The MailScanner itself works perfectly.  It is only when I turn on
>SpamAssassin that the load on the machine gets really high.  A lot of mail
>gets accumulated in the incoming queue waiting to be scanned.  I'm running
>15 mailscanner processes and it forks and gets doubled whenever I turn on
>SpamAssassin.

That's far too many. I suggest 3 or 4 children per CPU if you are doing
a lot of spam scanning. You can get away with more if you have a large
proportion of email traffic that isn't being scanned (e.g. internal
email).

Tony.
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