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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2005/10/21 20:06:28 UTC

Re: round robin

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Ronan writes:
> In a heavily loaded server with a lot of connections hitting it per 
> second, what is the best way to run spamd...
> 
> the standard 3.1 (hot children) or the old style round robin???
> 
> I have been having problems over the last 2 weeks etc with the spamd 
> timing out connections from the mta's i run so i switched to round robin 
> and i havent had an acl error since... is there a way to increase the 
> number of hot children from the default??

If you are running a large, dedicated server, and can reliably guarantee
that it won't run low on memory and dip into swap, then --round-robin is
actually more efficient (sorry Matt ;).

The Apache model is more efficient in the case that there may be some
swapping-out of scanner children.

- --j.
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