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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Luis_Hern=E1n_Otegui?= writes:
> Well, I've upgraded to SA 3.0.1 several of my servers, and since the
> bugfixes seemed so promising, I decided to give it a try on the server
> which had the memory issues (I've sent a couple of mails to the list a
> month ago, or so).
> Good news is spamd doesn't chew up the memory as fast as with 3.0.0.
> Bad news, it still does it. Playing with the numbre of
> max-conn-per-child and the number of children, I've managed to make it
> quasi-stable, but it still is a hell of a memory chewer.
> What really pisses me off is the fact that in the rest of my servers,
> when SA starts, only the parent process weights 22 MB, the children
> weight approx. 5 MB each. But in this particular server, all of the
> spamd processes start up as 22 MB processes...

What OS?  Linux 2.6.x and Red Hat's 2.4.x kernels report those
values incorrectly.

- --j.

> I've downloaded and recompiled perl (running on 5.8.5 now, compiled
> from source), and the bad behaviour keeps going and going.
> I've enabled the debug option on spamd, but looking at the maillog, it
> seems to be working fine. Every time a mail arrives, spamass-milter
> passes it to spamd, it opens it, claims the mutexes on auto whitelist
> and bayes, and then releases them, when it finishes scanning.
> Running sa-learn force-expire didn't help at all, spamd just keeps
> growing and growing, but with a setting of max-conn-per-child of 10o
> and ten children, it does it slower, and allows the server to live
> longer (so far, it didn't crash, but most of daily spam will arrive in
> approx. five hours from now).
> If anyone could point me on what to look at, or the output of what
> process will be handy to attach here in order to debug this, please,
> send me a mail, because this little big memory issue is really driving
> me nuts.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Luis
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