At 06:00 19-5-2005, Justin Mason wrote:
> Memory usage can be quite huge if you have many custom rulesets, because SA
> 3.0.x forks into several processes which all insist on making their own
> copy of the ruleset in memory :( When I still used the RDJ bigevil list
> (amongst others), it would use 96 MB of memory for each SA process.
actually, most of this *is* shared, it's just that linux can no longer report this accurately.
What makes you think that? Total used memory on my system is consistent with SpamAssassin processing not sharing any significant amount of memory. Also it reports the memory sharing just fine on applications such as Apache?
