Re: Memory usage question

2004-09-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matt Kettler wrote on Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:43:01 -0400: > Chris S reported his spamd swelling to 45mb with a huge version of > bigevil.cf he was testing. > The latest bigevil.cf needs about 40 - 50 MB *alone*! Together with several SARE rules our spamd processes were around 90 MB lately. That's

Re[2]: Memory usage question

2004-09-18 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Chr., Friday, September 17, 2004, 7:58:11 AM, Stucki (Christoph von Stuckrad) wrote: CvS> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:42:20AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: >> Since your box has 256mb of physical ram, I'd limit it to maximum of >> 256mb/15mb = 17 spamd's at the highest. I'd really suggest usi

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Robert Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Robert Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 10:12 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Memory usage question -Original Message- From: Brook Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 10

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Robert Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Brook Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 10:04 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Memory usage question On Friday 17 September 2004 07:05, Chris Santerre wrote: > Yeah, bring that 50 down a little :) Maybe 10. M

Re: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Friday 17 September 2004 07:05, Chris Santerre wrote: > Yeah, bring that 50 down a little :) Maybe 10. More memory NEVER hurt > anyone! > > Currently with BigEvil I'm running 51 megs for spamd!!! But the record on a > production server is something like 145. I think it was a crazy german ;) > >

Re: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:42:20AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > Since your box has 256mb of physical ram, I'd limit it to maximum of > 256mb/15mb = 17 spamd's at the highest. I'd really suggest using something > much lower like 10 unless you add some ram. Even this seems to be dangerous (sometim

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:23 AM 9/17/2004, Robert Bartlett wrote: Are you using the -m parameter of spamd to limit the number of children it will spawn? I'd suggest something like -m 6 to start with. Yeah it is setup for 50: -d -c -a -m50 -u user -v -H 50 is a LOT of spamd's... even at the low-end of 15mb each that's

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Robert Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:24 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: Memory usage question > > >-Original Message- >From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Robert Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Memory usage question At 06:56 PM 9/16/2004 -0700, Robert Bartlett wrote: >Thanks for the reply! Here is the deal,

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:56 PM 9/16/2004 -0700, Robert Bartlett wrote: Thanks for the reply! Here is the deal, we are currently deciding what we want to do next. Currently we have a Celeron 2.4 gig system with 256 megs of ram and a 40 gig hdd. In the past week or so our system has come to a halt, under 3 megs availab

Re: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Loren Wilton
> Thanks for the reply! Here is the deal, we are currently deciding what > we want to do next. Currently we have a Celeron 2.4 gig system with 256 > megs of ram and a 40 gig hdd. In the past week or so our system has come > to a halt, under 3 megs available, due to a bunch of emails coming in at >

RE: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Robert Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 6:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Memory usage question At 09:26 PM 9/16/2004, Robert Bartlett wrote: >I remember someone saying something ab

Re: Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:26 PM 9/16/2004, Robert Bartlett wrote: I remember someone saying something about memory usage per email that spamd uses to scan? But cannot find the email, what is the estimated amount of memory used per SA scan? I also have clamav set up Varies a lot depending on your configuration (bayes

Memory usage question

2004-09-17 Thread Robert Bartlett
I remember someone saying something about memory usage per email that spamd uses to scan? But cannot find the email, what is the estimated amount of memory used per SA scan? I also have clamav set up.   Thank you Robert Bartlett Director of Software Engineering Digital Phoenix Hosting & D