Steven wrote:

> 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

This looks like you have included a *blacklist* rule set.
http://marc.info/?l=spamassassin-users&m=118346997827114

Gary V



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