[SA-exim] Who's using teergrubing?

[Marc MERLIN]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:20:21AM -0500, Brian Kendig wrote:
> I'm curious -- how many people out there are running teergrubes?  And 

I am :-)

> what do you have your teergrube delay set to?  I'm using eight hours 

10mn. I find that most if not all MTAs have code to make sure they don't
hang around forever. Many don't stay longer than a few minutes, for that
matter, many spammers don't stay longer than 30 secs

> Also, is there any way to keep the size of the spawned exim processes 
> down while they're teergrubing spammers?  Right now each of my exim 
> processes is about 600KB resident with a little over 2MB swapped to 
> disk.  So twenty spammers tie up about twelve megabytes of RAM and over 

No, I don't agree.
Almost all that memory should be shared.

I don't know how much RAM is malloced by exim, but only that RAM should
be duplicated by each process.

Marc
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