SpamAssassin 2.55 problem

[Tony Finch]

Nejc Skoberne <nejc.skoberne at GUEST.ARNES.SI> wrote:
>
>Before I had a Celeron 533 with 64 MB RAM. My mailserver load is quite
>low (maybe 80-100 messages per day) and it didn't work OK. System was
>using about 100MB of SWAP space! SpamAssassin was timing out, mails
>were stuck in the queue...
>
>I upgraded to 320 MB RAM (I added 256MB) and since then everything
>works just fine.
>
>My question: Is this behaviour normal? Does MailScanner (and
>SpamAssassin?) really need so much memory to work smoothly?

You can adjust the memory usage of MailScanner by changing the number of
child processes. Allow at least 24MB for each child. If the total memory
usage is greater than your RAM expect the performance to be very very bad.

Tony.
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