Carlos Zottmann wrote: > Hi!! > > We are using amavisd-new indeed, and that was the problem. > > Doing a "ps aux | grep spam", i get just the processes below, wich are > started by a "spamassassin" service that we have on /etc/initd. > > spamd 15804 0.0 1.6 30868 24992 ? Ss Oct21 0:00 > /usr/bin/spamd -x -u spamd -H /home/spamd -d > spamd 15809 0.0 1.6 30868 24992 ? S Oct21 0:00 spamd child > spamd 15810 0.0 1.6 30868 24992 ? S Oct21 0:00 spamd child > spamd 15811 0.0 1.6 30868 24992 ? S Oct21 0:00 spamd child > spamd 15812 0.0 1.6 30868 24992 ? S Oct21 0:00 spamd child > spamd 15813 0.0 1.6 30868 24992 ? S Oct21 0:00 spamd child > > How does amavisd-new daemonizes spamassassin?
It does so internally. Amavisd-new is a perl application, and it internally contains a Mail::SpamAssassin object. Thus, every Amavisd acts as it's own spamd. You should kill your "spamassassin" service. It's only wasting memory.
