Depending on the weather, phase of the moon, amount of ram you have, and
other things, you may find limits from a couple hundred down to about 5 to
be appropriate. I'd probably suggest 100 to 50 as a good starting range
to
play with.
Dont forget the -m option. If you have more than about 5 children running
and don't have a huge email flow you might do well to cut the number of
children down to the 3 to 10 range.
Thanks for the advice. I set max-conn-per-child to 20 - probably needlessly
low, but I'll see how it does at that level and work my way up. So far,
working like a charm. max-children is set by default to 5 (at least
according to the man page), and I've never seen this box hit the limit. SA
is opt-in on this box and only processes a few thousand messages a day, but
when I checked this morning the five spamd children were using over 300MB
apiece; with this option turned on, they're down to about 40-50MB apiece.
