-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:23 PM
To: Jean-Paul Natola
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: limit child process
Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to figure out where/how to limit the number of SA's child
> processes -
>
> The Perl has been killing swap space, I *believe* this would remedy my
> situation.
>
> Is this the appropriate list, or should I refer to FreeBSD list?
This is the appropriate list.
How, exactly, are you calling SA?
Normally folks use spamc/spamd. In which case, spamd by default limits it's
own
instances. Spamcs are light-weight, being simple C programs.
If you're just calling "spamassassin" from a procmail script, set things up
so
spamd gets loaded at boot time and start calling spamc from your procmail
instead.
Spamd calls it,
But I have seen my monitor , on more than one occasion, with this error,
swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
and the worst part is I don't realize it until I hit the KVM switch , and
actually get on the console -
so can I customize spamd to a lower limit?
I noticed after I stop /restart spamd my swap goes back to normal
