Re: spamd & exiscan

Sujit Choudhury <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am running exim version 4.12 with exiscan.  I am finding spamassassin 
> is draining all my cpu (using spamd and look for external messages less 
> than 20K) on a SUN 280R with 2xCPU and 4GB of memory.
> I have upgraded SpamAssassin to V3.0.2.  But I have not seen huge 
> improvement.  Is there anyway I can use the socket?  I have created for 
> this purpose /var/spool/spamd.  An account spamd.
> Any hints would be of great help.

You need a newer version of exim/exiscan to access spamd via a socket, IIRC.  I
suggest upgrading to the latest version, v4.50, which includes the exiscan
code.  

The remote tests can add a lot of load if the volume is high.  If you have a
spare server with a good CPU available, you may want to consider a dedicated
spamd server. :)

thanks,
mikeS

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