[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/19/2004 08:09:26 PM:
> So, I have a new patch that should greatly improve memory usage
> if you have a low memory situation (where "low" == "< 100MB of
> free RAM", typically ;)
>
> It should apply cleanly to 3.0.0. I'd be very interested in
> feedback from people trying it... here it is:
>
> http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3983
>
> It adds a couple of spamd command-line switches, but should do sane things
> if you use your existing switches as-is.
>
> --j.
The patch seems to be working pretty well on my system, don't notice any slowdowns and paging is definitely better. I'm running on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system with 192MB of ram, using the defaults for the new switches, so two spamd child processes start up and it seems my system runs with just those two active most of the time. I've seen it running with 5 processes a few times, which is what I have my limit set to, but most of the time it's using 2 or 3. Here's a couple of top displays, the first is before the patch, the second is after.
last pid: 64134; load averages: 1.02, 1.38, 1.30 up 45+20:26:52 09:34:27
28 processes: 1 running, 27 sleeping
CPU states: 74.3% user, 0.0% nice, 13.2% system, 0.4% interrupt, 12.1% idle
Mem: 116M Active, 9728K Inact, 47M Wired, 6664K Cache, 28M Buf, 572K Free
Swap: 512M Total, 48M Used, 464M Free, 9% Inuse, 316K In, 416K Out
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
64073 spamd 113 0 53552K 38820K select 0:21 13.64% 12.40% perl
64011 spamd 4 0 56244K 37632K accept 0:51 15.61% 11.57% perl
63916 spamd 107 0 59760K 36248K select 1:28 15.15% 11.23% perl
63995 spamd 4 0 57212K 39360K accept 0:58 10.62% 9.91% perl
63996 spamd 4 0 56248K 37392K accept 0:46 4.13% 3.76% perl
389 root 96 0 1608K 268K select 4:58 0.00% 0.00% ntpd
260 root 96 0 1312K 248K select 3:47 0.00% 0.00% syslogd
414 root 96 0 3512K 476K select 3:25 0.00% 0.00% sendmail
28604 spamd 20 0 46188K 0K pause 1:11 0.00% 0.00% <perl>
431 root 8 0 1336K 120K nanslp 0:40 0.00% 0.00% cron
359 root 96 0 1236K 84K select 0:18 0.00% 0.00% usbd
408 root 96 0 3488K 0K select 0:10 0.00% 0.00% <sshd>
417 smmsp 20 0 3404K 0K pause 0:08 0.00% 0.00% <sendmail>
64116 root 96 0 2212K 1076K RUN 0:00 0.00% 0.00% top
64094 root 4 0 6240K 0K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <sshd>
64112 root 20 0 2312K 0K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% <csh>
sidewinder#
last pid: 74409; load averages: 1.25, 0.85, 0.70 up 46+20:09:26 09:17:01
26 processes: 2 running, 24 sleeping
CPU states: 82.9% user, 0.0% nice, 14.8% system, 1.6% interrupt, 0.8% idle
Mem: 73M Active, 22M Inact, 47M Wired, 11M Cache, 28M Buf, 27M Free
Swap: 512M Total, 13M Used, 499M Free, 2% Inuse
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
74322 spamd 127 0 56592K 46180K select 1:02 39.79% 39.79% perl
74370 spamd -8 0 55752K 45212K piperd 0:38 35.92% 35.64% perl
389 root 96 0 1608K 396K select 5:04 0.00% 0.00% ntpd
260 root 96 0 1312K 280K select 3:52 0.00% 0.00% syslogd
414 root 96 0 3512K 868K select 3:29 0.00% 0.00% sendmail
431 root 8 0 1336K 192K nanslp 0:40 0.00% 0.00% cron
66431 spamd 96 0 46432K 28368K select 0:28 0.00% 0.00% perl
359 root 96 0 1236K 84K select 0:18 0.00% 0.00% usbd
408 root 97 0 3488K 488K select 0:10 0.00% 0.00% sshd
417 smmsp 20 0 3404K 424K pause 0:09 0.00% 0.00% sendmail
66044 ajezierski 96 0 6240K 1052K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% sshd
66047 root 20 0 2316K 1088K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% csh
66042 root 4 0 6240K 924K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd
sidewinder#
Great Job!
Thanks
Andy
- need testers for a new memory patch Justin Mason
- Re: need testers for a new memory p... Andy Jezierski
- Re: need testers for a new memo... Michael Barnes
- Re: need testers for a new ... Andy Jezierski
- Re: need testers for a new memo... Justin Mason
- Re: need testers for a new ... Dawn Keenan
- RE: need testers for a new memory p... Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank]
- Re: need testers for a new memo... Theo Van Dinter
- RE: need testers for a new memory p... Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank]
