Re: restricting process limit

[Emmanuel Lacour <elacour@easter-eggs.com>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 07:08:05PM +0200, Thomas Schuering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > So when I'm getting a large amount of messages there is approx. 15-20 
> > spamc/spamd running. I want to limit this to ~5. How can I do this.
> 
> /usr/sbin/spamd -d -m 5
> 
> '-d'	: daemonize
> '-m 5'	: Allow maximum 5 children
> 
> Just checkout: man spamd

I would suggest having a look at amavisd-new for running SA. I saw a big
performance gain when switching from spamc+spamd to amavisd-new + SA

deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ woody amavisd-new

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