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[NMLUG] Spamassassin spamd size



Aaron,

I don't filter all accounts on my machine, so I don't run spamd/spamc, I 
just have procmail configed for each filtered account to run 
spamassassin, instead.

That's my work-around.

jody

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.
> 

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