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Matthew Newton writes: > I have three Sun Fire servers running Solaris 9 and SpamAssassin 3.0.1. > SpamAssassin memory usage seems grow a lot. The machines have 2Gb RAM > each, and I have an hourly cron job that restarts SpamAssassin if more > than 1.5Gb memory is used (if the machine starts swapping, performance > goes through the floor). > > So, the questions are a) Does SpamAssassin normally use a this much > memory? b) If so, how much can I expect it to use? c) If not, does > anyone know of any bugs in perl (5.8.0) or Solaris that could cause this > and finally d) is restarting SpamAssassin an acceptable thing to do to > stop it swapping? > > The machines each process around 80000 mails/day and we have something > like 25000 users. Hi Matthew -- how many children are running? does the memory usage rise, or is it constant from startup? are there patterns in RAM usage? are you using external rulesets, razor, pyzor, dcc, etc.? - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFBt2caMJF5cimLx9ARAjTiAJ0R2KASc3Gwmz1cMsv604BCoRwmCACeIisF d3Zeb5V/Snmv5npyyZdw3fo= =lFhe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
