MailScanner very memory intensive?

[Julian Field]

Take out all your extra rulesets, upgrade to the latest SpamAssassin 
(using my easy to install
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/install-Clam-SA.tar.gz
package) and then only add rulesets using Rules_Du_Jour once you are 
sure everything is working nicely.

My normal advice is 1Gb per CPU, as long as the machine isn't doing much 
else. You can watch to see your actual disk swapping use using the 
"vmstat" command. A common command for this is "vmstat 5" and the man 
page for vmstat will tell you what all the columns mean. You are 
probably looking for "si" and "so" or "pi" and "po".

Remy de Ruysscher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> No BigEvil rules are decrepated I believe. I do a.o. have these SA rules:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     24298 Oct  5 22:00 70_sare_evilnum0.cf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      1574 Jun  2  2005 70_sare_evilnum1.cf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6970 Jun  2  2005 70_sare_evilnum2.cf
>
>
> On Sat, March 4, 2006 10:13, shuttlebox wrote:
>   
>> On 3/4/06, Remy de Ruysscher <remy at unix-asp.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> 60795 postfix     1   8    0   470M   210M nanslp   0:50  0.00%
>>> perl5.8.8
>>> 68200 postfix     1   8    0   470M   378M nanslp   0:49  0.00%
>>> perl5.8.8
>>> 53602 postfix     1   8    0   470M 55660K nanslp   0:49  0.00%
>>> perl5.8.8
>>> 69900 postfix     1   8    0   470M   389M nanslp   0:48  0.00%
>>> perl5.8.8
>>> 72078 postfix     1   8    0   470M   389M nanslp   0:48  0.00%
>>> perl5.8.8
>>>       
>> If those are your MS processes something looks very wrong. Depending
>> on how much rules I use in SA my processes use 25-40 MB of memory per
>> child. Yours are more than 10 times that!
>>
>> You're not using the BigEvil rules are you?
>>
>> --
>> /peter
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>
>
> Met vriendelijk groet / kind regards,
> Remy de Ruysscher
>
> remy at unix-asp.com
>
>   

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