At 18:38 13-03-2008, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
1.We have a sitewide config
2.Startup parameters are
command_args="-d --min-children=2 --max-children=10 --min-spare=2
--max-spare=3 --max-conn-per-child=100 -r ${pidfile}"
3.I do not scan messages over 250 k
4.We process roughly 5k messages daily
5. the hardware is ehh kinda crappy, but we don't really process that much
PIII 550 448 ram
You did not mention how much memory each spamd process takes. With
that amount of RAM, a max-children of ten may be too high. Basically
you should see whether the maximum number of spamd processes
(max-children) fits in available RAM.
Regards,
-sm