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Jerry Glomph Black writes:
> spamd 3.0 does preforking of the child processes.
> 
> Nothing wrong with that, but WHY do the children have such enormous RSS
> numbers already when started (>20 Meg per process)?  To me, this makes
> no sense.
> 
> 3.0 has rendered two decent machines of mine useless by snarfing up all
> the RAM.
> 
> Can this be put back to the old fork-on-demand model?   I'm convinced
> that the current forking scheme is broken.
> 
> Is the old 2.6x spamd code compatible enough to run with all the 3.0
> perl apparatus?

most of this memory is shared.  spamd preloads as much as possible
upfront, to maximise memory sharing -- including all the rules, compiled
into perl code etc.  recent investigation (can't recall bug #) is showing
that this is working, too...

- --j.
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