Mailscanner and memory resources

[Tony Finch]

"Rose, Bobby" <brose at MED.WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
> I've started using some of the SA ruleset like tripwire, bigevil and
>such.  In doing so, I'm finding that the size of the MailScanner
>processes increase dramatically because each MailScanner process is
>essentially it's own SA process and loads all the configs and rules it
>needs.  Wouldn't it be better to just have MailScanner make calls to
>spamd thus reducing the amount of resources?

I believe spamd forks in order to implement concurrent message handling,
so using spamd will increase memory usage because of the lack of sharing
of perl infrastructure bwteeen MailScanner and SpamAssasin.

Tony.
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