On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 17:47:22 +0200 Henrik K <h...@hege.li> wrote: > Memory measured with "free" (without buffers/cache etc):
> begin 2588084 > end 1296756 > About 25MB non-shared memory used per child, Are you sure your measurements are correct? I use MIMEDefang which also has a preforked-children architecture and I see only about 4MB shared per child with the vast majority of per-child memory non-shared. This is based on what top reports. > So in the case of SA, it's not anywhere near "very little memory > shared after a short while". My measurements completely disagree with yours, so one of us (or both?) is wrong. Regards, David.