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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <sp...@dostech.ca> on 2006/08/15 16:06:48 UTC

Re: about value of max-children

On 8/15/2006 10:01 AM, Halid Faith wrote:
> Hello 
> 
> I use spamassassin as test.
> 
> My mail server handles mails about 200 K  in a day.
> 
> What should I set value of  the --max-children num   in spamd ?
> 
> I think the -m value is 5 as default.
> When I  type perl -MSocket -e'print SOMAXCONN'  I see 128 on display.
> 
> Thanks

Start with budgeting 50MB of available RAM per child.  If you start swap 
thrashing decrease the max number of children.

Daryl