I've read this mail and the replies to it, and I don't understand why you are seeing these problems. I'm running SA on an ia32 Linux box and a SPARC Solaris box, and I see no problems with the child processes or memory usage.
One big difference is that I'm using perl 5.6.1 and LANG=C . It is pretty commonly known that the socket routines in perl 5.8 have memory leaks because of a bug in its io subsystem. A relevant post about this issue can be found here: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/65325 And a recommended workaround is to put into your environment PERLIO=perlio before spawning spamd. You might see if you have the latest perl from RedHat. The most recent one I see is perl-5.8.0-88.3. In summary, I do not see this as a problem with SA, but some specific problem in your environment either at the OS level or at the perl level. Mike -- /-----------------------------------------\ | Michael Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | UNIX Systems Administrator | | College of William and Mary | | Phone: (757) 879-3930 | \-----------------------------------------/
