[plug] spamd grinding to a halt

[Russ Powers]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:50 pm, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Russ Powers wrote:
> | > How many processes is your spamd willing to spawn at once, and how
> | > much RAM do you have?  At a vague rule of thumb, I believe spamd takes
> | > up ~50mb plus ~10--20mb for each message that it's checking.  The
> | > default on Debian is to allow up to 10 spamd children at once, which I
> | > found out is not fun on a machine with 'only' 192mb RAM doing a lot of
> | > other things at the same time...
> |
> | Only 64MB of ram, but it is a 564.840 MHz processor!  ;-)
> |
> | OK, so, Is there a way to limit spamd to one process? It may make it slow
> | but at least it won't kill the server.
>
> The limit is set by the "-m" command-line option to spamd.  (See "man
> spamd" for the gory details.)  In Debian you can set the options in
> /etc/default/spamassassin; other distributions will probably put them
> somewhere else.

I've set it to one. Now I'll just have to wait and see how it goes.

Thanks.

>
> Cameron.
>
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Regards,
Russ