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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Jul 10), asfdqwer xzcvdsf said:
> Spamassassin seems to be using a HUDGE amount of memory while just
> sitting idle.  On other boxes it uses about a 1/4 of the amount of
> ram.  Is this something I should ask in the spamassassin mailing
> lists or is this the right place?

> athlon1# ps axuww | grep spam
> root   34350  0.0  1.2 26140 25700  ??  Is    6:43PM  0:00.87 /usr/local/bin/spamd -a -c -d -r /var/run/spamd.pid (perl5.8.4)

26MB looks about right to me.  Spamassassin uses around the same amount
of memory on all my systems (FreeBSD, Linux, perl 5.6, perl 5.8).  It's
perl, has over 400 regexes, and may be caching a bayes database.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com