[ale] Spamassassin cleaning

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 14:25 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Is there anything I need to do to clean spamassassin?
> 
> 24485 cfowler   20   0  311M 165M 16632 R    99.6 71.1   6:40 spamassassin
> 24512 cfowler    9   0  1048 1048   832 R     0.3  0.4   0:00 top
>     1 root       8   0   116   64    64 S     0.0  0.0   0:10 init
>     2 root       8   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
> 
> 
> This is my top output of my mail server.  It has slowed down and I
> can not believe the smapassassin is using up that much memory.  Something
> has got to be wrong.

There is a butt-load of cruft flowing through the Internet this week
(last week too).  My SAs are consumming 50% more memory than before, but
the same CPU.  I suspect this is due to it processing more variants and
just keeping data cached.  I see no performance problems, just lots of
rejects.

-Jim P.