Re: [Mimedefang] Embedded Perl (continued)

2015-09-23 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On 2015-9-22 17:16 , Steffen Kaiser wrote: > I had SpamAssassin rules allocating about 100MB, the forked children > only shared the C libraries after some time. That's a problem of > Perl's way to handle rereferences to data. It might help not to integrate SpamAssassin, but to use spamc to communi

Re: [Mimedefang] Embedded Perl (continued)

2015-09-22 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Amit Gupta wrote: My situation is that the number of mimedefang.pl processes jumps to about 70 during peak loads (we are processing a couple hundres messages per minute on average). Our filter file is in need of some optimizati

Re: [Mimedefang] Embedded Perl (continued)

2015-09-22 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:20:16 -0700 Amit Gupta wrote: > We have 16GB of ram, though there are other processes running on this > machine such as DB that will be segmented later. I'm curious how much > resident memory each of your mimedefang.pl processes uses? About 110MB, but not sure how much of

Re: [Mimedefang] Embedded Perl (continued)

2015-09-22 Thread Amit Gupta
We have 16GB of ram, though there are other processes running on this machine such as DB that will be segmented later. I'm curious how much resident memory each of your mimedefang.pl processes uses? I haven't been tracking my mimedefang.pl memory usage over time, so I was a little surprised to se

Re: [Mimedefang] Embedded Perl (continued)

2015-09-22 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 07:57:18 -0700 Amit Gupta wrote: > My situation is that the number of mimedefang.pl processes jumps to > about 70 during peak loads (we are processing a couple hundres > messages per minute on average). How much RAM do you have? 70 parallel scanners is not outlandish on busy

[Mimedefang] Embedded Perl (continued)

2015-09-22 Thread Amit Gupta
Apologies for starting a new thread. I couldn't find any messages in my inbox to reply to. Thanks Paul, Bill and Diane for your replies. My situation is that the number of mimedefang.pl processes jumps to about 70 during peak loads (we are processing a couple hundres messages per minute on averag