> I watched a spamd child grow to 250MB yesterday on a single message. I > have a suspicion that the memory usage growth is happening on a whitelist > or bayes database maintenance event of some sort.
It seems a solution here might be to have a spamd child that notices it needs to to maintenance should either pass that off to another child created specifically for that purpose, or else die after performing the maintenance . Of course, that is based on the speculation that the maintenance is causing the extra memory usage, which is still speculation. Loren