Joey Davis wrote:
I am running into memory allocation problems and am not sure how to
resolve it. My question: Is it advisable to limit the number of child
processes started by spamassassin in my situation. I'm green and not
sure how to handle this.
I am on a VPS with thirty email users.
Tasks: 21 total, 2 running, 19 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
0.0% si, 0.0% st
Mem: 4139312k total, 3961724k used, 177588k free, 53200k buffers
Swap: 8388576k total, 592k used, 8387984k free, 3245160k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 16 0 1916 668 576 S 0 0.0 0:00.07 init
4002 root 16 0 1580 564 472 S 0 0.0 0:01.15 syslogd
4010 root 16 0 4900 1108 792 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sshd
4019 root 15 0 2144 828 700 S 0 0.0 0:00.61 xinetd
5166 sa-milt 19 0 2240 524 404 S 0 0.0 0:00.00
spamass-milter-
5167 sa-milt 16 0 44804 1512 1108 S 0 0.0 0:05.74
spamass-milter
5187 root 16 0 27484 9420 5852 S 0 0.2 0:00.10 httpd
5196 root 16 0 3128 1116 576 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 crond
5204 root 16 0 5148 1280 984 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 saslauthd
5210 apache 16 0 27640 5096 1432 S 0 0.1 0:00.32 httpd
5324 apache 15 0 27640 5104 1432 S 0 0.1 0:00.35 httpd
5346 apache 15 0 27640 5080 1400 S 0 0.1 0:00.35 httpd
20384 root 16 0 46880 43m 2220 S 0 1.1 0:03.25 spamd
15603 apache 16 0 27620 5096 1400 S 0 0.1 0:00.23 httpd
15694 apache 15 0 27756 5116 1400 S 0 0.1 0:00.26 httpd
15582 root 15 0 54044 50m 2272 S 0 1.2 1:45.61 spamd
21824 root 16 0 48016 44m 2204 S 0 1.1 0:02.25 spamd
10082 jdavis 16 0 7212 2692 2188 S 0 0.1 0:00.07 imapd
11463 root 16 0 7896 2384 1936 R 0 0.1 0:00.11 sshd
11481 root 15 0 2432 1372 1104 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 bash
15631 root 16 0 2056 988 796 R 0 0.0 0:00.01 top
Yes, it probably would be advisable to limit the number of child
processes. However, I don't see any indication there that you are
running into memory problems.
