[SLL] collaborate on a dnsbl?

[Jules Agee]

Ben Johnson wrote:
> do you run spamassassin as the spamd daemon?  the processes are still
> pretty big, but it doesn't fork a new perl process very often and the
> code is parsed, I think, only when a new process is forked.  like
> running mod-perl instead of using /usr/bin/perl under apache.

Spamd will forks lots of processes when a spammer's hitting you with a
dictionary attack looking for valid addresses. Our SA box goes over 30
SA processes a few times a week. At 12-18 MB of *non-shared* RAM per
process, they adds up quickly. :-)

We start up spamd with option -m 50. Our server starts thrashing at
around 65 SA processes.

-Jules