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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
Excuse my ignorance  ;

Here's the original line

spamd_flags=3D${spamd_flags:-"-c -d  -r ${spamd_pidfile}"}

is this how I should change it?


spamd_flags=3D${spamd_flags:-"-c -d  -r - m 20 ${spamd_pidfile}"}