On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 04:18 -0700, Gnanam wrote: > > Daniel Lemke wrote: > > > > I think we live in some sort of parallel universes ;) > > > > Beside several other reasons why it would be totally insane sending an > > email of that size, it's nothing you need SpamAssassin to check for > > because it's definitely no spam. If you ever get a spam message of that > > size, please call Guiness ;) > > Hope I'll not exceed this 256 MB limit. > Don't forget that if you default spamd to --max-children (5) and you're simultaneously scanning five max-sized messages, thats at least 1.3 GB of RAM occupied by spamd and its children. I trust you've got enough swap space configured, i.e. 2 x RAM, and that you've got a high enough setting for --timeout-child.
Martin