> > based on what you wrote, I added a "-m 2" option to my call of spamd, to
> > limit the number of children to 2.
> > This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was
> > "unlimited". If that's wrong, could one of the developers or someone with
> > more insight set us straight?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ralf G.
> 
> What will happen when a process calls spamd, and it is at the max children
> already?  For instance, I have SA running server wide in a gateway
> configuration with qmail as the MTA.  It calls spamd each time it writes to
> the queue, so sometimes there are quite a few spamd processes running,
> hogging up the processor.  If I limited this to say 5 processes by using "-m
> 5", what will happen to the 6th, 7th, etc. calls for spamd?

They wait.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
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