Usage help

[Jean-Paul Natola]

Ok, if I can figure out what this means

procs      memory      page                   disk   faults      cpu
 r b w     avm    fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr ad0   in   sy  cs us sy id
 1 10 0  435856   5288  260  22  63  43 334 9137   0  447  134 782 11  6 83

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Swiger [mailto:cswiger at mac.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:28 PM
To: Jean-Paul Natola
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Usage help

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