W dniu 23.10.2012 15:52, Bowie Bailey pisze: > On 10/23/2012 7:30 AM, Marcin Mirosław wrote: >> W dniu 23.10.2012 12:03, Arthur Dent pisze: >> [...] >>> Just thought I'd ask... >>> >>> You did restart SA after you made the changes? >> Yes I did. In meanwhile I've found bug >> https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6843 . But it >> doesn't give me anwser why max-spare limit max childs. (And honestly >> it's strange for me how min,max/children,spare options works). >> Regards, >> Marcin > > spare = idle child process > > So... > > min-spare = minimum number of idle child processes > max-spare = maximum number of idle child processes > > min-children = minimum number of children (busy or idle) > max-children = maximum number of children (busy or idle) > > Usually, max-children is the one you want to adjust. Make it high > enough to handle your load, but make sure you don't over-commit your > RAM. If you start swapping, everything slows to a crawl. >
This is what I thought but as you can see in my test case spamd doesn't behave in this way. (e.g. I can't start more childs than set with option max-spare)
