Guess what? After removal of,
local_phishing_reply.cf 99_anonwhois.cf malware.blocklist.cf the memory usage dropped to 15% of RAM. Time to add more children into the mix. Cheers, S On 2013-03-06 15:55, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 3/6/2013 9:53 AM, Simon Loewenthal wrote: > >> Hi KAM and AxB, The system is a small low cost VM. The provider (for some reason) only offers to move the server to a new box, instead of adding an extra half gig, which is pretty poor. I don't have the time to spare for such a move for the moment. Yep - It's 64bit : amd64. Rule sets. I shall drop some rule sets. An sa-compile is run every time the automatically downloaded rulesets change, but this won't necessarily cut here when so tight on ram. > > Understood. Definitely look at rule sets and using 64Bit for a machine > with 500MB of RAM just seems like a massive way to waste memory. When > you move, if you are locked to ~4GB or less, go with x86. > > Regards, > KAM