David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
In kde 4.3, when kmail starts and has several hundred messages to download, spamassassin goes nuts and eats 50% of the CPU until it has finished scanning all of the new messages, this can take 15-30 minutes. During this time, the whole system is running very slowly (you type and wait for the characters to appear). How can I set the priority for spamassassin so it never takes more than say 10% of the CPU -- or -- tell it to only work when I'm not doing anything else?
When kmail starts? Where is your email? Why do you regularly have backlogs of several hundred messages to download? spamassassin is normally meant to be run as a daemon on email in the background __as email comes in__... You don't want to usually run it when you login to read email. It sorta _sounds_ like you are using maybe a laptop? and only log into your provider once a day? Maybe you could forward it all to a google account and let google do the spam filtering (they do a pretty good job once you setup their system). Then you could download your cleaned email from google and not spend your time waiting on the computer -- either that, or get a computer you can leaved plugged into the internet to download and spool your cleaned email, then when you attach your notebook, your mail-spool 'puter will have already run spamd on everything as it comes in -- and you can just download the presorted results (including the spam if you want to sort through stuff to search for mistakes). Just some thoughts... -linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org