SMP Machines

[Tony Finch]

Julian Field <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>At 00:48 05/11/2003, you wrote:
>>Hi there, i have an old NEC 5800 dual P200 - i know this is a very old
>>machine, but i will use 3 of them if i have to - and was wondering if i
>>should make any changes to the MailScanner, SpamAssassin confi to take
>>advantage?
>>
>>I know i can change the amount of child process, if i change this figure
>>from say, 5 to 4, will this mean i have 4 process PER CPU ? Will
>>MailScanner already be using the 2 CPUs, without mne changing anything?
>
>It means the total number of child processes. You can often run 4 or 5 per
>CPU quite well, giving you
>         Max Children = 8
>or possibly 10.

So long as you have enough memory -- allow 25-30 MB per MailScanner process.

Tony.
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