On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:00:12PM -0500, Craig Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 04:27, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > AHA Lists wrote: > > > I am running spamd on my redhat 6 box and spamd is taking up 5.3% memory. > > > IS this normal? > > > > > > root 3401 0.0 5.3 7848 6792 ? S 08:44 0:00 perl > > > /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a > > > > > > > This is Perl. It trades memory for speed. Yes, that's perfectly normal. > > > > One thing to beware of is that Perl will *never* free memory back to the > > OS. Ever. > > That shouldn't matter much in our case, because of the > spawn-die-spawn-die-spawn-die nature of spamd. The only process that > could be "growing" is the master spamd process, but it's never doing > anything that allocates memory. > > C >
The only problems come when you get "spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn- spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn- spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-spawn-crash-and-burn" as soon as fetchmail kicks in. -- Duncan Findlay _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
