Reducing Spamassassin process count
Dramatically reduce memory footprint by changing the number of threads that spamassassin will execute at once from 5 down to 1.
Centos: In /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin
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change:
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m<strong>5</strong> -H"
to
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m<strong>1</strong> -H"
Debian: in /etc/default/spamassassin, change:
OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children <strong>5</strong> --helper-home-dir"
to
OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children <strong>1</strong> --helper-home-dir"