From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 6 20:16:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E42016A41C for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 20:16:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (mail.familycareintl.org [68.167.21.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30C943D46 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 20:16:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:16:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E948F4A1@fci-ex.FCI> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Usage help Thread-Index: AcWCZ4mD+9RfZ8p1QA6T5D8FmODMDw== From: "Jean-Paul Natola" To: Subject: Usage help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:16:09 -0000 Hello everyone, I'm a newbie- please be gentle, I have deployed a BSD box running , EXIM , SA, & CLAM Here's the situation , minute after I launch Spamassassin the machine = starts crawling, although top shows anywhere from 50 - 90 idle it just slows = down extremely , for example I'll type top and wait anywhere between 4 and = 12 seconds before it actually brings up the screen. I kill SA and I'm back to normal, I have checked the paniclog and mainlog and see no indication of what = maybe causing this. The box is being used only to filter the mail , it is not storing , it = is just passing it to my mail server. The box is a PIII 450 MHz with 192 RAM I have ordered and additional 512 for it, is there a way to perhaps = limit the amount of SA processes it will run simultaneously? Could that be = what is causing it? Thanks in advance=20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 Jean-Paul Natola Network Administrator Information Technology Family Care International 588 Broadway Suite 503 New York, NY 10012 Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36 Fax: 212-941-5563 Mailto: Jnatola@Familycareintl.org=20