On Tuesday 26 August 2003 13:59, H du Plooy wrote:
Hi all,
This is just out of curiosity, but fixing the problem would lessen some irritations too.
I have fetchmail --> sendmail --> procmail <spamassassin> (if I understand the order of events correctly.
Whenever I download lots of e-mail at a time, I notice my system gets slower and less responsive, sometimes so bad that apps like evolution and mozilla seem to freeze until the mail is delivered. I never noticed the system monitor showning increased cpu activity, and top didn't turn up anything either.
Today I realised that it's the hard drive that's going bezerk when I'm downloading mail. Why?
You also want to considder if virus scanning is necessary if this machine only fetches its own mail (not serving as a mail server for windows machines). Virus scanning for linus is (at this point in time) largely a waste of time and resources because there are no known viruses that infect linux and no virus scanner databases detect these (non-existant) viruses. (Amavis is simply a front end processor for the actual virus checker. It rips an email appart, writes the parts to a directory, scans that directory and then re-builds the email. - All very usefull if your machine serves mail to windows machines, but otherwise a waste of resources). -- _____________________________________ John Andersen