a) a certain amount of cpu time.
b) a certain amount of realtime (60 seconds?)
I've had a couple of "spamd child" processes drive my load average through the roof, force sendmail to shut down, and screw things up good until they were manually killed.
I would also LOVE to see a way to view at a glance what spamd children are processing what message for who, similar to apache's server-status page.
-Dan Mahoney
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