Ron Smith wrote: > Thanks so much for your kind response, Bowie. That has become my > conclusion also. Do you use sa-compile and if so, have you seen that > improve memory usage?
I attempted to use sa-compile, but I kept running into problems, so I dropped it. I think the problems were related to an account that has some user-defined rules. > I've tried adjusting the child processes up and down with little > effect I think. Are you using 2 or 3? What's your timeout setting for > spamd? I am running spamd like this: /usr/bin/spamd -d -m 4 --max-conn-per-child=50 -timeout-child=180 -u mailuser That's a maximum of 4 spamd child processes and they restart after 50 connections each. The processes are using 60-65M each. Drop your maximum number of children until the system runs without using swap. You could also drop any unnecessary 3rd party rulesets to lower the memory consumption of each process. If you can't keep it out of swap, you should consider adding some memory. My system has 1GB of ram, but the only things running are the mailserver, spamd, clamd, and named. I have some swap space available, but it is never used. -- Bowie
