I wrote about this yesterday.

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME 
COMMAND

nobody   17140  1.3 13.1 194984 169432 ?     S    09:49   3:58 spamd 
child
nobody   18656  1.3 10.4 159208 134328 ?     R    10:08   3:43 spamd 
child
nobody   21371  1.1 12.7 191072 164440 ?     S    10:38   2:51 spamd 
child
nobody   21372  1.4 15.1 243424 195616 ?     S    10:38   3:34 spamd 
child
nobody   22331  1.4 22.7 327064 293176 ?     S    10:47   3:32 spamd 
child
nobody   22481  1.2 15.6 242200 201256 ?     S    10:49   3:10 spamd 
child

I am averaging 200MB per child.

Here are my other rules:
70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf             # snap
70_sare_evilnum0.cf                                     # snap
70_sare_evilnum1.cf                                     # snap
70_sare_evilnum2.cf                                     # snap
70_sare_header0.cf                                      # snap
70_sare_header1.cf                                      # snap
70_sare_header2.cf                                      # snap
70_sare_header3.cf                                      # snap
70_sare_html.cf                                         # snap
70_sare_obfu0.cf                                                # snap
70_sare_obfu1.cf                                                # snap
70_sare_oem.cf                                          # snap
70_sare_random.cf                                       # snap
70_sare_specific.cf                                     # snap
70_sare_unsub.cf                                                # snap
70_sare_uri0.cf                                         # snap
72_sare_redirect_post3.0.0.cf                   # snap
99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf                                     
99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf                                


There is a lot of overlap there. What version of SA are you running?
Perhaps we should start removing them one at time and see what 
happens to the memory usage.

Dp.



On 17 May 2006 at 7:27, James Lay wrote:

> Hello all!
> 
> Soo.....yesterday I decided to get gutsy and use just about all the
> rules from SARE.  Here's my rulesdujour config:
> 
> TRUSTED_RULESETS="ANTIDRUG BLACKLIST BLACKLIST_URI BOGUSVIRUS
> RANDOMVAL SARE_ADULT SARE_BAYES_POISON_NXM SARE_BML SARE_EVILNUMBERS0
> SARE_EVILNUMBERS1 SARE_EVILNUMBERS2 SARE_FRAUD SARE_GENLSUBJ
> SARE_GENLSUBJ0 SARE_GENLSUBJ1 SARE_GENLSUBJ2 SARE_GENLSUBJ3
> SARE_GENLSUBJ_ENG SARE_GENLSUBJ_X30 SARE_HEADER SARE_HEADER0
> SARE_HEADER1 SARE_HEADER2 SARE_HEADER3 SARE_HEADER_ENG SARE_HEADER_X30
> SARE_HIGHRISK SARE_HTML SARE_HTML0 SARE_HTML1 SARE_HTML2 SARE_HTML3
> SARE_HTML4 SARE_HTML_ENG SARE_OBFU SARE_OBFU0 SARE_OBFU1 SARE_OBFU2
> SARE_OBFU3 SARE_OEM SARE_RANDOM SARE_RATWARE SARE_REDIRECT
> SARE_REDIRECT_POST300 SARE_SPAMCOP_TOP200 SARE_SPECIFIC SARE_SPOOF
> SARE_UNSUB SARE_URI0 SARE_URI1 SARE_URI2 SARE_URI3 SARE_URI_ENG
> SARE_WHITELIST TRIPWIRE"
> 
> Now here's the output of ps aux:
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
> COMMAND root      3338 31.6 26.8 287636 277940 ?       Ss   07:24  
> 0:39 /usr/bin/spamd -u filter -d -m 10 -r /home/filter/run/spamd.pid
> --socketpath=/home/filter/run/spamd filter    3365 19.1 27.1 290940
> 281204 ?       S    07:25   0:14 spamd child filter    3366  0.0 26.7
> 287636 276788 ?       S    07:25   0:00 spamd child
> 
> Is this normal?
> 
> James


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