> -----Original Message----- > From: Colin A. Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:31 AM > To: Dan Didier; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Limit number of spamd processes > > Dan Didier Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:22 AM > > > I am running qmail with spamassassin 2.63 using spamd. I > have noticed > > under high load spamd crashes because it runs out of RAM. > > Each spamd process takes about 45MB of ram. When I reach the > > limits of RAM and it want's to spawn another, it crashes. > > > > Is there a way I can reduce the memory utilization? Another option > > would be if I could limit the number of spamd processes, is there a > > way to do this? > > When you invoke spamd use "-mX" where X is the maximum number > of processes. > 45 MB sounds pretty high. Do you have a lot of extra rules in > there? I have almost every rulesemporium rule and I think > mines around 30 MB or so. Also, make sure that the process is > finishing within a timely manner. I had a problem early on > with defunct RBLs that were timing out and therefore making > each spawned process sit around much longer than it needed > too. I've got a > RH9 Dell 2.4 ghz P4 with 512 MB RAM, 40 GB IDE drive, and > each process takes about a second or so. > > cheers, > Colin
Collin, Thanks, I have modified my config and I will see how it does. I do have some extra rules, and probably need to do some trimming. Spamd typically finishes between 3 and 12 seconds. Thanks again, Dan > > Colin A. Bartlett > Kinetic Web Solutions > www.kineticweb.biz > >
