128MB of RAM with a 238MB swap partition. It was the defaults from the FreeBSD install. I never thought it would use it all up. All it does is handle email.
128MB is not enough in my experience. I found that with 128MB of ram that I had to limit concurant scanning to no more than 5 spamd processes at once or a burst of incomming traffic would push the machine into swap rendering it unusable.
I'd suggest 256MB bare minimum, 512MB would be pretty comfortable. (Our server now has 1GB of ram, but it also runs webmail and a couple of other related tasks, and stats suggest it would have managed with 512MB, most of the extra ram gets used for disk caching which speeds up the general running of the server)
Regardless of the amount of memory you also need to put limits in to how many spamd processes can be called at once. The best place to do this is in your MTA's configuration...
Regards, Simon
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