Re[2]: Memory usage question

[Robert Menschel <Ro...@Menschel.net>]

Hello Chr.,

Friday, September 17, 2004, 7:58:11 AM, Stucki (Christoph von Stuckrad)
wrote: 

CvS> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:42:20AM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote:
>> Since your box has 256mb of physical ram, I'd limit it to maximum of 
>> 256mb/15mb = 17 spamd's at the highest. I'd really suggest using something
>> much lower like 10 unless you add some ram.

CvS> So a system with 1G Memory (+2GSwap) DualPentium4 simply stopped
CvS> completely just by crowding its space with max 32 copies of spamd
CvS> (each forking with near 50M). The system was to slow to reboot
CvS> correctly and had to be 'reset' and fsck-ed.

CvS> So you have to watch closely, if the system is as small as the
CvS> above. Better invest in lots of memory...

However, for a system that gets only
RB>> At one point we hit 60 emails in a span of 5 minutes.
-m of 4 or 5 is probably adequate, in which case 256 Meg may be
sufficient, if slow.

(Me, I use a 1 Gig Windows machine just for word processing, web page
editing, and the occasional mass-check. Norton Utilities normally reports
50% in use, no matter what I do.)

Bob Menschel