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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  
> 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.

Sounds like you are swapping.  You can check top or vmstat to see for  
sure.  You can control the number of SA child processes by adding a "- 
m NNN" flag to spamd_flags in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd.sh.

-- 
-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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