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 using something >> much lower like 10 unless you add some ram. CvS> So a system with 1G Memory (+2GSwap) DualPentium4 simply stopped CvS> completely just by crowding its space with max 32 copies of spamd CvS> (each forking with near 50M). The system was to slow to reboot CvS> correctly and had to be 'reset' and fsck-ed. CvS> So you have to watch closely, if the system is as small as the CvS> above. Better invest in lots of memory... However, for a system that gets only RB>> At one point we hit 60 emails in a span of 5 minutes. -m of 4 or 5 is probably adequate, in which case 256 Meg may be sufficient, if slow. (Me, I use a 1 Gig Windows machine just for word processing, web page editing, and the occasional mass-check. Norton Utilities normally reports 50% in use, no matter what I do.) Bob Menschel
