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Re: [Exim] Spamd and exim using all the cpu

Sujit Choudhury wrote:

> Is there anything I can do to improve the performance.

Do you already limit spam scanning to "small" messages, i.e. smaller
than ~100-200k?

/tom

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I am running exim which calls spamd from within exiscan. The spamd configuration is as follows: spamd -a -d -x -m 10. It is setup to scan only external mail....	Sujit Choudhury S.Choudhury@...	Jul 27, 2004 10:57 am
... Do you already limit spam scanning to "small" messages, i.e. smaller than ~100-200k? /tom -- ## List details at...	Tom Kistner tom@...	Jul 27, 2004 10:58 am
Tom, I only check for message_size < 50K as can be seen from the config file: exiscan_spamd_condition=${if or{\ {eq...	Sujit Choudhury S.Choudhury@...	Jul 27, 2004 10:59 am
... Is it actually spamd chomping your CPU? What does "top" say? Is there anything in the logs? (I'm just wondering whether you are actually receiving enough...	Tim Jackson lists@...	Jul 27, 2004 11:56 am

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