On Tue, 08 Jul 2003, Tony Earnshaw muttered drunkenly: > I've no experience with IMAPAssassin, but spamd runs as a parent > spawning children on demand - as does amavisd-new. Active spamd > processes typically consume up to 22-25 MB each on my RH 7.2/Perl > 5.6.1 Linux m/c and non-active 16-17 MB. Active Amavis processes an > amazing 70+ MB (there's usually only one active at a time out of 3 max > configured) and non-active around 33 MB. > > AFAICS, these are not threaded, LWP processes, they are concurrent, so > memory consumption is cumulative. And obviously i don't run both at > once.
Some of that memory will be CoW-shared with the parent; probably most of it. So the actual hit per process could be substantially lower. -- `We cannot get a new line down the pipe due to a blockage and we cannot dig up the road to clear the blockage because it is covered with the wrong type of tarmac.' --- British Telecom, via Mark Lowes ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
