On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:37:51 +0100 Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > a question about increasing / decreasing children process. > I got following message in log file. Please note timing as > increasing and decreasing actions are consecutive. > > Dec 17 13:00:25 vps622 spamd[1335]: prefork: adjust: 0 idle children > less than 1 minimum idle children. Increasing spamd children: 9358 > start > Dec 17 13:00:28 vps622 spamd[1335]: prefork: adjust: 2 idle children > more than 1 maximum idle children. Decreasing spamd children: 9358 > killed. > Dec 17 13:00:28 vps622 spamd[1335]: spamd: handled cleanup of child > pid [9358] due to SIGCHLD: interrupted, signal 2 (0002) > > Looks normal or my config is wrongly setup ? > > spamc configuration is the following: > > # /etc/default/spamassassin > ENABLED=1 > OPTIONS="--create-prefs --min-spare 1 --max-spare 1 --max-children 5
If you set min-spare == max-spare you are likely to get children created and deleted in rapid succession, the default is 1 and 2.
