Hi all, I'm using SA 2.60 with qmail both started through daemontools service on the same server (196MB RAM/256MB swap). The mail traffic is about 250-300 msgs/day. I'm also using 2 custom rulesets for SA. When started, SA takes about 20MB of memory and as mail passes through the server it spawns several processes taking 15-30MB of memory, until the machine freezes. Is that normal? After a while, running 10-15 instances of spamd, all system memory gets eaten. Thanks for any hints to lower memory usage with spamd...if there are any.
Arthur
Arthur,
I recently posted to this list asking about the exact same problem. As others have pointed out this is a known problem with some installations. The solution I found to work for me is to reduce the number of custom rule sets (*.cf files) in /etc/mail/spamassassin and use the -m switch with spamd (limits number of spawned child procs). Search the archive, it's been discussed more than once.
HTH Ralf G.
