Well yeah, I had it happen to me and just removed a child. Everything was fine after that. Its a configuration problem, not an SA problem. People are used to seeing 1-2 instances running I think. Not used to having all the instances preloaded I guess.
--Chris >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 11:15 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: Spamd is a memory hog (?) > > >I read through the posts, and I don't think they are vaild. >When run as >Spamd spamassassin on my machine uses about 50 meg per child. >I think this >is a configuration issue for the person in question. > >The questions I would have for them are: >1. What rules are you running? >2. Are you running the V3 version of said rules? >3. Are you taking advantage of the myriad of new features in >V3 that make >some of the rules for 2.x.x unnecessary? > >Ron > >Original Message: >----------------- >From: Duncan Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:15:34 -0400 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Spamd is a memory hog (?) > > >There's a big long thread on debian-devel about trying to get >SpamAssassin 3.0.0 into sarge (which is not going to happen, >FWIW). > >There's a lot of grumbling about our API change without bumping the >soname (which of course doesn't exist in perl...). People think we >should have provided backward compatibility, somehow. There's even >some absurd claims that spamassassin 3 breaks exim 4. > >However, among the topics discussed include a large number of >developers claiming that SpamAssassin essentially crashed their system >by using up way too much memory. jm, quinlan, I suspect you may be >interested in these reports. I've linked them below: > >Beginning of thread >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/10/msg00213.html > >Tollef Fog Heen reports some pretty hefty memory usage here: >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/10/msg00242.html >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/10/msg00302.html > >The thread's pretty much dead, but if we could gain anything from it, >that'd be good. > >-- >Duncan Findlay > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >mail2web - Check your email from the web at >http://mail2web.com/ . > > >
