size of mailscanner processes?

Kai Schaetzl maillists at CONACTIVE.COM
Thu Feb 12 17:31:36 GMT 2004


I'm evaluating MailScanner at the moment and I wonder if it is normal that 
the processes take up 50 MB each? Somewhere in a FAQ I read about 20 MB. 
50 MB per process and most of that not-shared seems a bit high to me.

 3229 root      15   0 14456  13m 9360 S  0.0  2.6   0:00.04 MailScanner
21196 root      15   0 52452  51m 9972 S  0.0 10.2   0:05.23 MailScanner
21215 root      15   0 52536  51m 9952 S  0.0 10.2   0:05.48 MailScanner

so, the main starter process seems to have only 15 MB, but any of the real 
work processes has 50.
System is Suse 9.0 with Perl 5.8.1
I'm using clamavmodule, could this be the culprit for grabbing so much 
RAM?

Kai

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Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany




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