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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by List <li...@nchost.net> on 2004/10/01 22:11:08 UTC

number of child processes

Hi List,

I had just upgraded from 2.64 to 3.0. The first thing i notice is that there 
are spamd child processes. I have 5 in total.

root      5691  0.0  1.3 30536 13604 ?       S    Sep29   0:28 spamd child
root      5802  0.0  1.7 30260 17764 ?       S    Sep29   0:29 spamd child
root      5887  0.0  1.1 29632 11592 ?       S    Sep29   0:29 spamd child
root      5925  0.0  1.5 29764 16144 ?       S    Sep29   0:27 spamd child
root      6155  0.0  1.7 30564 18176 ?       S    Sep29   0:30 spamd child


This is normal?

best regards

Re: number of child processes

Posted by Matt Kettler <mk...@evi-inc.com>.

At 04:11 PM 10/1/2004, List wrote:
>I had just upgraded from 2.64 to 3.0. The first thing i notice is that 
>there are spamd child processes. I have 5 in total.
>
>root      5691  0.0  1.3 30536 13604 ?       S    Sep29   0:28 spamd child
>root      5802  0.0  1.7 30260 17764 ?       S    Sep29   0:29 spamd child
>root      5887  0.0  1.1 29632 11592 ?       S    Sep29   0:29 spamd child
>root      5925  0.0  1.5 29764 16144 ?       S    Sep29   0:27 spamd child
>root      6155  0.0  1.7 30564 18176 ?       S    Sep29   0:30 spamd child
>
>
>This is normal?

If you use spamd, yes.. as of 3.0, spamd preforks children, and by default 
limits itself to 5 children max (unlike 2.xx where there was no default limit).

Read the README and UPGRADE files that came with SA.