RE: Memory footprint of a mail server

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Ross
> So, is there anyone with an idea on how improve memory efficiency here? I used to use spamassassin, but now I outsource my spam and virus filtering. Services like mailfoundry and postini do excellent work, they spend all their waking hours trying to improve spam filtering accuracy. I personally

Re: Memory footprint of a mail server

2010-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 23:51:24 Thomas Goirand wrote: > Hi, > > Back when we were running Sarge, we were able to run clamav, > spamassassin and amavis, together with apache, mysql and an ftp server, > in just 200MB RAM and same as swap. > > Today, running Lenny, top shows us some crazy results: >

Re: Memory footprint of a mail server

2010-05-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 05 May 2010 12:51:24 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Today, running Lenny, top shows us some crazy results: > > clamav: 156 MB > amavisd-new: 80 MB per process (running 3 processes is the minimum) > spamd: 105 MB per process (same remark) > > That makes the total amount of RAM needed to r

Re: Memory footprint of a mail server

2010-05-05 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Thomas Goirand : >Today, running Lenny, top shows us some crazy results: >clamav: 156 MB >amavisd-new: 80 MB per process (running 3 processes is the minimum) >spamd: 105 MB per process (same remark) >That makes the total amount of RAM needed to run these 3 up to >something like 700 MB, which mak

Re: Memory footprint of a mail server

2010-05-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Thomas Goirand put forth on 5/4/2010 11:51 PM: > Hi, > > Back when we were running Sarge, we were able to run clamav, > spamassassin and amavis, together with apache, mysql and an ftp server, > in just 200MB RAM and same as swap. > > Today, running Lenny, top shows us some crazy results: > > cla