Hi there, I'm running SA 3.0.2 via spamc/spamd on an Exim mail server, but I'm finding I quickly run out of memory and the machine collapses into a burning heap as soon as it touches swap.
Is there a rule of thumb of how many SA daemons to prefork to the amount of RAM? The boxes currently have 2G and I'm having to restart spamassassin every hour -- and theyre still running out just before it hits the hour in some cases. The daemons are really chewing through the RAM: root 28020 0.0 1.4 36148 30408 ? Ss 11:32 0:01 /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 15 --helper-home-dir --socketpath=/tmp/spamd -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid root 28021 5.6 1.9 56724 40776 ? S 11:32 1:18 spamd child Debian- 28022 6.5 6.8 156404 142448 ? S 11:32 1:30 spamd child Debian- 28023 7.0 6.8 156112 141248 ? S 11:32 1:37 spamd child root 28024 9.5 7.0 157928 145628 ? S 11:32 2:11 spamd child root 28025 8.9 6.9 154064 143532 ? S 11:32 2:03 spamd child root 28026 7.4 6.8 152392 141392 ? S 11:32 1:43 spamd child root 28027 8.5 6.9 155744 142780 ? S 11:32 1:57 spamd child root 28028 6.4 6.7 154576 140532 ? S 11:32 1:29 spamd child Debian- 28029 8.7 6.9 158684 144576 ? S 11:32 2:00 spamd child Debian- 28030 8.5 6.8 154096 141724 ? S 11:32 1:57 spamd child root 28031 5.5 1.9 55348 40048 ? S 11:32 1:17 spamd child root 28032 7.9 6.9 156164 143112 ? S 11:32 1:49 spamd child root 28033 9.6 6.9 155404 143244 ? S 11:32 2:13 spamd child root 28034 7.6 6.9 156244 143224 ? S 11:32 1:45 spamd child root 28035 9.0 6.8 154256 142284 ? S 11:32 2:05 spamd child The machines are dual xeon 2.4G with 2G of RAM and dual U320 SCSI drives in software RAID1. I could feasibly bump the boxes up to 4G, but it will get expensive! Any suggestions would be appreciated! Cheers Mike -- Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
