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Jon Trulson writes:
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Justin Mason wrote:
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> > Scott writes:
> >> I did realize I had big evil running.. Which by removing that it cut my
> >> memory usage to 42MB per child.. What is the recommended replacement for
> >> big evil? Is it already part of 3.0.1?
> >
> > SURBL.  Support for it is builtin to 3.0.x by default.
> >
> > All the people who are reporting massive memory usage on 3.0.x, please
> > try *without* add-on rulesets.  42MB is still about twice the normal
> > memory usage on an x86 platform, and that's all rules, if it's that
> > size just after startup.
> >
> 
>       FWIW, I use no custom rulesets with v3 currently.  At least on my 
> system, the memory issues had nothing to do with a custom ruleset or 3.
> 
>       The --max-children=1 flag to spamd has 'solved' the issue for 
> me... Average child size is around 19-20MB, until 'the event' happens, at 
> which point it jumps to around 320MB.

I'm considering writing some scaling code so that spamd starts with
1 server, and scales up to max-children if the existing number of
servers is overloaded.  That would probably help for the cases where
- --max-children=1 helps, which seem to be a lot of them.

- --j.
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