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sirrar 
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 Topic: How to start Spamfilter with low priorityPosted: 28 April 2005 at 6:22am |
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Hi does anyone know how to change the priority of the spamfilter service? When started I know how to manually set the process to low or high through "Task Manager". Actually I can't even change the priority through "TM" getting "Access Denied". Is there a way to configure spamfilter automatically to start with priority ex. belownormal ??? I was thinking of a switch in the registry or maybe a line for it in spamfilter.ini? Best regards... SirRar Edited by sirrar |
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Posted: 28 April 2005 at 10:32pm |
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Sirrar,
There are 2 registry settings that control this BUT ... Use with care:
All are in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\YOUR-S ERVICE-NAME\Parameters
"Priority"=dword:00000000 = Normal Priority
"Priority"=dword:00000004 = Lower Priority
"Priority"=dword:00000003 = Real Time Priority - DANGER - Preempts all other processes
"Priority"=dword:00000002 = Very High Priority
The next values sets how many and which CPU's to use:
"AffinityMask"=dword:00000000 = Use all available CPU's
"AffinityMask"=dword:00000001 = Use CPU 0
"AffinityMask"=dword:00000002 = Use CPU 1
"AffinityMask"=dword:00000003 = Use CPU 0 & CPU 1
And so on.
My gut feeling is to not use any of the above settings however.
Regards,
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Posted: 29 April 2005 at 1:45am |
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Hi again Thanks for the answer. Have You tested this on the Spamfilter service? I just did, without any effect on the spamfiltersvc (still running in normal Priority). First of all, there was no "parameters" below the Spamfilter service, made a new key myself. Then I have tried with "Priority" 4 (belownormal), but without effect. I have also tried the regdword "ThreadPriority", also without effect. Any suggestions? BTW. Running spamfilter on a win2k3. Edited by sirrar |
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Posted: 29 April 2005 at 1:32pm |
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sirrar, The SpamFilter Service *may not* support it however, if you have ever used "FireDaemon" service installer, it can replace the "standard" windows service for SpamFilter and then it *should* work but I have not tested that. I use FireDaemon to run all my "MRTG" services and use the Affinity setting to set which CPU's (out of 8) the each service uses and that does work. Regards, |
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