My server has 8GB of ram, around 4 GB is currently used by spamassassin
(too many process of /usr/bin/perl -T /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/spammng
-c -C --max-children=1 start).
Is this normal? Can I somehow limit the process concurrency of
spamassassin or I could limit the amount of RAM it consumes?
I am tried to change max-children from 5 to 1 (by using Plesk) but no
results.
Plesk basically uses the system default SpamAssassin install. The
exceptions:
* It has its own startup scripts that invoke the system's spamd with its
own options. That's spammng.
* It has a replacement for spamc.
* It has wrapper scripts for sa-learn.
But once spamd is running, you're basically looking at a typical spamd.
In your case, it looks like it's having problems starting up. It sounds
like "spamassassin --lint" might be your friend here.
(Oh, and different versions of SA come with Plesk. It depends on your OS
version and version of Plesk. On Redhat, the latest version I've seen
used is 3.1.9.)
