On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 11:55:43AM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 18:44:54 +0200 > Henrik K <h...@hege.li> wrote: > > > Virgin childs: > 79MB private; 2GB shared (~40MB shared/child) > > > Used childs: > 1.2GB private; 1.2GB shared (~24MB shared/child) > > This is roughly what I am seeing with MIMEDefang also: Only 50% > shared. It's better than nothing, but not nearly as good as one might > have hoped. On my system, about 3.5MB of the shared memory is the > text portion of libraries such as libperl.so and libc.so which you'd > expect to be shared anyway, so really only about 20.5MB/46.5MB of Perl > memory is shared for each slave.
But atleast ~10-20MB of private data per spamd child is the per message scan data/blobs etc (can be seen as 20mb heap allocation). This should not be calculated in any memory ratio conclusions.
