"List" writes: > Hi List, > > I had just upgraded from 2.64 to 3.0. The first thing i notice is that there > are spamd child processes. I have 5 in total. > > root 5691 0.0 1.3 30536 13604 ? S Sep29 0:28 spamd child > root 5802 0.0 1.7 30260 17764 ? S Sep29 0:29 spamd child > root 5887 0.0 1.1 29632 11592 ? S Sep29 0:29 spamd child > root 5925 0.0 1.5 29764 16144 ? S Sep29 0:27 spamd child > root 6155 0.0 1.7 30564 18176 ? S Sep29 0:30 spamd child > > > This is normal?
This is the default. You can use the "-m <num>" parameter to reduce the number of child processes. It's fairly similar to the Apache 1.x model, except that if there are more requests than available children, those excess requests will have to wait. Arun
