Re: spamd - limiting processes

2005-05-12 Thread Marco Herrn
> At 05:51 AM 5/11/2005, Marco Herrn wrote: >>It seems that the --max-children option doesn't do as one expects, since >>spamd now uses a preforking. And it seems that the processes are not >>limited at all. > > Are you sure? Are there more than 5 spamd's in ps ax? You are right. There are only 5

Re: spamd - limiting processes

2005-05-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:51 AM 5/11/2005, Marco Herrn wrote: It seems that the --max-children option doesn't do as one expects, since spamd now uses a preforking. And it seems that the processes are not limited at all. Are you sure? Are there more than 5 spamd's in ps ax? Really, with the prefork model, 5 should be t

spamd - limiting processes

2005-05-11 Thread Marco Herrn
Hi, I am using spamassassin 3.0.2 with spamd. spamd is running all the time and the spamc processes are called from my MTA (exim) each time a message comes in and the receipient wants the message to be scanned. spamd is called with the following options: --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-h