On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 09:35 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: > John Horne wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Running SA 3.1.4, I see messages such as these in the log file: > > > > Sep 6 00:05:21 tracy spamd[1710]: prefork: child states: KKKKKKI > > > > > From the code the various letters seem to indicate killed, > > > initialised, > > busy etc. My question though is are these just informational type > > messages? Are they something I need to take note of or monitor? > > Not unless they are causing a problem. These are just status messages > so you can see how the child processes are being used. > > One thing I note is that you have set your max-children to at least 7. > Yes, it is set to 8. The above message was taken soon after an SA restart, so perhaps only 7 had started at that time.
> With this many children, keep a close eye on your memory usage. You > should generally allow about 50M of ram for each child. With 7 > children, you will need 350M of memory just for SA. With other stuff > running, this can easily be too much for a 1GB server. If you start > running into performance problems, you might want to take a closer > look at this. > The server has 2GB of ram. It runs an MTA and SA, but does not do virus checking. I only installed 3.1.4 yesterday, so it is a little early to say if there are problems. However, I am seeing in the logs messages like these: Sep 6 15:58:11 tracy spamd[13052]: prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it SA seems to indicate that the value should be raised rather than lowered. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
