MailScanner very memory intensive?

[Remy de Ruysscher]

Hi Julian,

Thanks, I found out that SA is indeed using large amounts of memory, by
disabling SA in MS.

I have cleaned up my SA rules (4.9Mb total in rules), used only a few of
the rules mentioned on rulesemporium, but still MS is using around 950Mb
with 5 childs.

bash-2.05b# spamassassin --version
SpamAssassin version 3.1.0
  running on Perl version 5.8.8

The server is not heavy used, only for mail gateway and some
firewalling/routing.

Any more suggestions?

Regards,
Remy.

On Sat, March 4, 2006 17:27, Julian Field wrote:
> 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?
>>>
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>>
>> Met vriendelijk groet / kind regards,
>> Remy de Ruysscher
>>
>> remy at unix-asp.com
>>
>>
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Met vriendelijk groet / kind regards,
Remy de Ruysscher

remy at unix-asp.com