Load average high!!!

[Walker Aumann]

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 09:28, Joe Smith wrote:
> I have found 256 mb about the least I can get by with on a
> MailScanner/av-of-your-choice setup.  You can throw in spamassassin and
> still run ok with fairly high load as long as your custom SA rule files
> aren't to large.  If you are running fairly light mail traffic ( <1000 per
> day )  you can drop the max children down to 2 or 3 and maybe get by with
> 128 mb.

I have about 2000 messages per day going through an 800MHz Athlon with
256mb.  I've been using one child process for months without a problem.

Walker