Ron, you still don't seem to indicate that you've figured out there is
no memory leak.
Rather than bothering to berate Kai at this point you might modify
the way spamd is started to reduce the number of children. That is a
sure way to run out of memory and drive the system into swap space.
Once it goes into swap space nothing fails, per se; but, throughput
goes to perdition. Reducing the memory load on the machine will VERY
much help the speed of each SpamAssassin run.
If you have high email throughput demands you may want to reduce the
number of rule sets you are loading if you are using any Rules du Jour
rules from the SpamAssassin Rules Emporium. Reduce the number of other
programs running on your SpamAssassin machine. And of course, reduce
the number of spamd children that are running if you cannot add some
significant amounts of memory.
Memory is important. I run a very small system with limited demands.
So I run a lot of SARE rule sets. Spamd uses about 50 megabytes for
the rule sets. I also use per user rules. That increases the overall
memory footprint. At one time I ran on a 256 megabyte machine that
had some other modest demands placed upon it. When I ran more than
4 children the system slowed down by a very large factor. I ran out
of enough memory to keep the entire array of immediately active
software within RAM.
(If SpamAssassin leaked memory you can bet I'd have been exquisitly
abusive to the person's responsible. I'd notice it remarkably rapidly
because I do tend to watch for that sort of thing. And I beat myself
to death over leaks I create from time to time. So at least I am fair
when I beat up others I catch with a leak. The other folks here are
probably even more sensitive than I am, like the fellow who was
running SA on a system that handled more traffic than AOL ever has
handled. He was an extreme case. But there are some big system admins
on this list. And they'd complain instantly. With that in mind I might
note that your choice of subject was "sub-optimal". It raises the
"BS" flag or the "Troll" flag, rightfully or wrongfully. "Memory
problems" might have been more diplomatic.)
{^_^} Joanne (ME lecturing about diplomacy? You GOT to be kidding!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, 2008, July 25 08:11
Kai, I tried to explain that I didn't get that email response. We have
been having mail delivery issues as a result of this problem. I was
asking for help, not a scolding. You assume wrongly that because you
didn't get a reply that I ignored you... I didn't get your reponse.
Ron Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Having an email problem is painful, but character-building."
On Jul 25, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Ron, what are you up? You claim that there is a memory issue with SA.
Fine, could be so. You where asked to provide memory details. You didn't.
I told you you didn't. You snap at me and still don't provide the memory
details. Tells me you are not really interested in investigating the
issue
and not really interested in reading replies.
Kai
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