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Date:      Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:55:06 -0400
From:      "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola@familycareintl.org>
To:        "Charles Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Usage help
Message-ID:  <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E948F4B1@fci-ex.FCI>

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Ok, if I can figure out what this means

procs      memory      page                   disk   faults      cpu
 r b w     avm    fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr ad0   in   sy  cs us sy =
id
 1 10 0  435856   5288  260  22  63  43 334 9137   0  447  134 782 11  6 =
83

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Swiger [mailto:cswiger@mac.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:28 PM
To: Jean-Paul Natola
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Usage help

On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Here's the situation ,  minute after I launch Spamassassin the =20
> machine starts
> crawling,  although top shows anywhere from 50 - 90 idle  it just =20
> slows down
> extremely , for example I'll type top  and wait anywhere between 4 =20
> and 12
> seconds before it actually  brings up the screen.

Sounds like you are swapping.  You can check top or vmstat to see for =20
sure.  You can control the number of SA child processes by adding a "-=20
m NNN" flag to spamd_flags in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd.sh.

--=20
-Chuck




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