-----Original Message----- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 6:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Memory usage question
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 vs no bayes, add on rules, etc). If I start spamd on my system (don't normaly use it because I use MailScanner which calls the API directly) it pops up with a RSS of 26mb. I use bayes with an enlarged database size (200k tokens, instead of 150k) , and a few add-on rules. A 200k token bayes db should be about 10mb based on info in the manpage, so disabling bayes and using only stock rules could take spamd down to as little as 15mb, however, I've not got the ability to test that right now. Chris S reported his spamd swelling to 45mb with a huge version of bigevil.cf he was testing. 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 once. At one point we hit 60 emails in a span of 5 minutes. It is a system we are "renting" at a colo. So Im heading this project up trying to decide to either rent out cabinet space and build our own systems and do it that way, or just upgrade the current system. Currently we are running Fedora Core 1 with clamav. I do not believe we have bayes running, I assume we don't since I do not know how this would be set up. We also use Rules De Jour with all rules available except Big Evil, we are using RBL. I know that when I restart spamd it shows this: 99.9 9.5 29068 24300 (24300 being RSS) I also use vpopmail for virtual domain setup.
