[NMLUG] Spamassassin spamd size

[neosad1st at charter.net (Robert)]

On Sunday 07 November 2004 08:50, Aaron NMLUG wrote:
> I'm having trouble with SpamAssassin spamd'd getting HUGE.
> It seems like they usually start out around 64MB,
> which is bad enough, but frequently 2 or 3 of them
> grow to well over 100MB, which starts my machine into swapping.
>
> How/where might I find out about things I might be able to do
> to control this.  even 64MB sure seems like a major waste
> of resources, no matter how complex a spam filter is.
> Perhpas there are some SA configuration options where I might
> be able to trade some performance for memory usage?
>
> Does anybody know much about how SA works?  Even with my
> 2.75MB baysian database...  there's a lot of explaining to
> do to figure out how these daemons get to over 100MB.

Mine is running around this:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root       836  0.0  1.2 21580 20068 ?       Ss   Oct24   0:00 /usr/bin/spamd 
-d
root       846  0.0  1.4 28668 23092 ?       S    Oct24   0:14 spamd child
root       847  0.0  1.5 28848 23380 ?       S    Oct24   0:12 spamd child
root       848  0.0  1.6 30032 24852 ?       S    Oct24   0:17 spamd child
root       849  0.0  1.6 28764 26052 ?       S    Oct24   0:13 spamd child
root       850  0.0  1.8 29700 28016 ?       S    Oct24   0:16 spamd child

free -k
              total        used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1550844    1517936      32908          0      66384    1140388
-/+ buffers/cache:     311164    1239680
Swap:       511520      12188     499332

So it uses around 

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