We're running amavis-new on an internal mail server that doesn't see a whole lot of traffic and only has about 15 users, but seeing a LOT of memory usage at all times by amavisd.
The server is a VMware virtual image of CentOS 4.3. It's got two processors and about 1.5GB of ram allocated. We're using postfix with virtual users in MySQL as our MTA and the amavis version is 2.5.0 This is the sort of system usage we see from amavis all the time. Once the process gets ramped up and the children get created it sits at this memory usage and basically never moves up or down more than a percentage point. top - 09:32:20 up 7 days, 20:01, 1 user, load average: 0.69, 0.60, 0.39 Tasks: 137 total, 1 running, 136 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 99.3% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1814836k total, 1400840k used, 413996k free, 67656k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 208k used, 2031400k free, 257344k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1212 amavis 18 0 437m 412m 2968 S 0.0 23.3 3:11.92 amavisd 4760 amavis 16 0 436m 411m 2876 S 0.0 23.2 1:08.40 amavisd 21985 amavis 16 0 434m 409m 2732 S 0.0 23.1 2:03.53 amavisd Turning off Clam altogether has no affect. Does anyone have any idea why we're seeing this and what we can do to bring it down? A few hundred megs of memory per process is pretty steep. Thanks, Steven --- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Visit http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ to download your free copies of: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
