Package: spamassassin
Version: 3.2.1-1.1
Severity: normal

The warning

  prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising
  it

is generated
by lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm:804:

    if ($num_servers < $self->{max_children}) {
      $self->need_to_add_server($num_idle);
    } else {
      info("prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising 
it\n");
    }

I consider this premature. Spamd should warn when it would have to
spawn the max_children+1th instance, but not when it spawns the
max_children'th instance.

We operate a busy server and matched postfix's max_proc setting for
the transport spawning spamc to the value of max_children, and now
we often get this warning in the logs, when in fact all is going
according to plan.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages spamassassin depends on:
ii  libarchive-tar-perl           1.32-1     Archive::Tar - manipulate tar file
ii  libdigest-sha1-perl           2.11-2     NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith
ii  libhtml-parser-perl           3.56-1     A collection of modules that parse
ii  libio-zlib-perl               1.04-1     IO:: style interface to Compress::
ii  libnet-dns-perl               0.60-1     Perform DNS queries from a Perl sc
ii  libsocket6-perl               0.19-1     Perl extensions for IPv6
ii  libsys-hostname-long-perl     1.4-1      Figure out the long (fully-qualifi
ii  libwww-perl                   5.805-1    WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  perl                          5.8.8-7    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages spamassassin recommends:
ii  gcc                           4:4.1.2-3  The GNU C compiler
ii  gnupg                         1.4.6-2    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  libc6-dev                     2.6.1-1    GNU C Library: Development Librari
pn  libmail-spf-query-perl        <none>     (no description available)
pn  libsys-syslog-perl            <none>     (no description available)
ii  make                          3.81-3     The GNU version of the "make" util
pn  re2c                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  spamc                         3.2.1-1    Client for SpamAssassin spam filte

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