Memory use

[Martin Hepworth]

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How much ram? What does "vmstat 5" show when it's swapping.

Have to reduced the number of Child processes in MailScanner.conf?

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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of José Angel Blanco González
> Sent: 16 November 2005 12:39
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [MAILSCANNER] Memory use
> 
> After one or two hours of running my red hat linux 9 machine the Ram
> memory
> is fully ocupied, by programs and disk cache.
> Then the system starts swaping and MailScanner reduces performance
> drastically.
> 
> Our systen has:
> Mailscanner 4.45.4
> Sendmail 8.12.8
> Clamav 0.84
> Spamassassin
> 
> Here is the capture for 'free' command
>                     total            used            free        shared
> buffers        cached
> Mem:            2840672    2812672     28000    0                126556
> 2449792
> -/+ buffers/cache:            236324       2604348
> Swap:           1044184    77396         966788
> 
> Any idea?
> Thank you very much
> 
> Jose
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