I've change from 5 to 10 and I've upgrade the RAM to 6GB, but I've the same problem.
every child it occupies approximately 450MB of RAM
I've also clamav antivirus on my server and any scan require about 30MB of RAM.
I've not more RAM to upgrade the server and increase the number of the child.
Andrea
> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@???
> [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of John Jetmore
> Sent: venerdì 29 settembre 2006 14.43
> To: Balzi Andrea
> Cc: Exim, Users
> Subject: Re: [exim] problem with spamd (connection time out)
>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Balzi Andrea wrote:
>
> > My server have 2 CPU Intel Xeon 3.00GHz with 4GB RAM.
> >
> > pamassassin start with the follow command:
> >
> > /usr/sbin/spamd --syslog=local4 --create-prefs --max-children 5
> > --helper-home-dir -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid
>
> Why are you only running with 5 children? Look in wherever
> local4 is logged and see if you have something like "prefork:
> child states: BBBBB"
> indicating all 5 of your spamd children are busy.
>
> --John
>
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