fchan ybmjpmolsciorg hi dont mind taking ram since 3gb raise amount child processes wanted find much ram child takes decide many max children raise without killing system also would like check raise maxchild etcrcdinitdspamd redhat linux system spamd 20 h im 20 max child processes curious im still seeing messages thank frank maxchildren setting consider raising im still getting error messages log server reached maxchildren setting consider raising get message spamd less children mail server smtp threads maxchildren 2 limit gets hit often dont care spamd child takes part ram im willing give 2 mail gets serialized gets done lower mail server threads raise maxchildren depends much ram spamassassin certainly works fine messages get logged maxchildren setting reached messages put queue server later childs ready thu 07 aug 2008 173120 0800 maxchildren setting consider raising