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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:03:48 +0100
From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: SA-3.3.2 options max-spare and max-children doesn't work as i
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:49:13 +0200
Marcin Miros=C5=82aw wrote:

> Hello list!
> I'm playing with options min-spare,max-spare,min-children and
> max-children, I'd like to save memory on my vps. So I'd like to have
> one children awaiting for connection from MTA, when MTA receives more
> emials in short time I'd like SA to spawn more children
> (max-children=3D6). I thinks it's enough to have zero (or one) spare
> children in my case. I'm starting spamd with such parameters:
> ... --min-spare=3D0 --max-spare=3D1 -m 6

You can't use min-spare less than 1, if you do it gets adjusted to 1.=20

spamd only adjusts the number of children when it's out of bounds. If
you had min-spare=3D0 then a state with no spare children would be in
bounds and there would be no mechanism to increase the number of
children.