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thanks Andy -- sounds like very good results there. anyone else tried it yet? - --j. Andy Jezierski writes: > [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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFBo6K+MJF5cimLx9ARAuJgAKC8gV7sGEhAO734jrY5zvtzDCSVrwCfUqVJ clLZBpVSjHvL2KGfks+xkXQ= =X1gc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
