Removing SpamAssassin

[RaZor Edge]

From what I saw searching on the web, seems like SpamAssassin can use a lot of memory on a VPS (see this thread).

I've got only 2 webmail on my VPS, an 20/25 forwarders, so, I don't think spamassin is really necessary for me. Do you think it can be a good idea to disable Spamassassin (Spamd). If yes, what is the simple (and safest) way to do that?

Thanks!

[Andre]

As an idle service SpamAssassin doesn't really consume a lot of ram. But if you don't use it anyway, you may indeed as well disable it.

About how to disable it: that depends on what control panel you are using.

[RaZor Edge]

I'm using cpanel.

[Andre]

Ok then simply login to WHM, first go to Service Manager and disable spamd there. Then go to Tweak Settings and disable SpamAssassin there.

That's all basically. I'm not sure whether this will also automatically stop SpamAssassin automatically. What you can do is to enter this in SSH (as root):

ps -aux | grep spamd

If it shows no ouput then spamassassin is not running. If it does show output you can use the following command to kill it:

killall -9 spamd

[RaZor Edge]

Great! It works!

I also have disable mailman.

I have compare "cat /proc/user_beancounters" command before and after the changes... and I also see memory usage going down (80 000 --> 66 000, even if there is more people on my website now)!!!

[Andre]

That's great to hear. That's a difference of approximately 55mb (14 000 * 4 / 1024).

[winger]

Great! It works!

I also have disable mailman.

I have compare "cat /proc/user_beancounters" command before and after the changes... and I also see memory usage going down (80 000 --> 66 000, even if there is more people on my website now)!!!

Hi,

How did you disable mailman?

tks.

[JPC-Greg]

In WHM -> Tweak Settings , theres an option to shut it off. You may have to kill the processes too but they shouldnt come back.