Ram eat up

[Ugo Bellavance]

Shahid Hussain wrote:

>>>When I loaded MailScanner, I notice MailScanner just eat up
>>>about 30% of RAM
>>>even though MailScanner is not processing (nor no mail
>>>received).  Is this
>>>normal?
>>
>>Yes.
>>
>>If you reduce the number of Spam Assassin rules or the number of
>
> MailScanner
>
>>children, memory usage will go down.
>>
>
>
> What I did this time change 5 to 4 (Max Children = 4) and "Spam Checks = no"
> then then restart mailscanner. I checked RAM usage - it is still the same -
> it is eating ram too much..
>
> # ps -aux
> mail   52256  0.0  5.1 27784 26576  ??  S     8:10PM   0:00.67
> /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/MailScanner /usr/local/li
>
> As you can see its "5.1" Mem but my mail server is not busy at all, I only
> get about 1 or 2 emails everyday on this server.
>
> any idea?

Yes, use 1 for Max Children.  I process ~ 200 msg/day with this setting
on a PII/233

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