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Date:      Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:13:59 -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:  <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E948F4BB@fci-ex.FCI>

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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
Yep I think you hit right on the head

Swap: 231M Total, 214M Used, 17M Free, 92% Inuse, 720K In, 520K Out



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