On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:58 +0100, Mike Grice wrote: > 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:
Just to answer my own question (I'm not going mad, honest), I just noticed the max-connections-per-child by default is 200. I guess that this could be nasty for memory usage, so I've tried dropping it to 100. Is there a FAQ for high-volume installations? I'll post my findings on the above... Cheers Mike -- Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
