Timo wrote: > Hello amavis users, > > I have noticed a huge amount of swap usage (around 150 MB with 512 MB of > physical RAM). So now I am trying to save memory as much as possible. I > reduced $max_servers to 1 in amavisd.conf as supposed in the > README.performance file. After a restart of amavisd-new swap usage went > down under 100 MB. > > Besides the daemons that I need for mail, the machine runs bind, apache > and mysql. I also limited memory usage for those programs as good as I > can. This brought me down to around 20 MB in swap. > > The problem is, that over time I still get over 100 MB swap usage. > Obviously amavisd-new is to blame because when I just do a restart of it, > I get down to the 20 MB swap. > > What I also noticed is, that there are 2 amavisd-new processes after my > max_servers reduction (from above). Can I run amavisd-new with > $max_servers = 0? Which other measures do you know to limit or to save > memory? > > I am using amavisd-new-20030616p10-5 with spamassassin-3.0.3-1 and > clamav-0.85.1-2 connected to exim-3.35-1 on a Debian woody. (I know that > these are very old versions) > > TIA > Timo > I know with my setup (amavisd-new and postfix) the number of processes needs to be the same. That is for instance: if you want one process of amavisd-new then the same would apply for postfix. I dont know exim so you might want to check into it.....just an idea. BTW there are other memory intensive options in amavisd-new, perhaps doing without some of these would help out.
Dale > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, > and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl > _______________________________________________ > AMaViS-user mailing list > AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user > AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 > AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/ > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
