SPUG: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 is released

[Tim Maher]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:17:45PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
> > 
> > I believed the spamd man-page when it told me that the default
> > number of children for spamd was 5, but recently discovered that
> > the line in my /etc/init.d/postfix that started spamd was
> > actually requesting 20! (I guess something in the upgrade to 3.0
> > slipped that into the file when I wasn't looking.) So I've
> > changed that command to only allow 2 simultaneous children 
> > (spamd -m 2),
> > and my performance is *much* better now.

An alternative possibility is that I (unknowingly) previously ran
20 children without trouble, but after upgrading to the new version,
that number proved way too high for my (1 ghz) machine to handle.

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