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The following page has been changed by JustinMason:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/TopSharedMemoryBug

The comment on the change is:
added introductory note

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= When I look at 'top', the spamd processes are not sharing enough memory =
+
+ Here's a sample output from "top" viewing two spamd processes:

{{{
PID USER PR NI CODE VIRT RES SHR nDRT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
@@ -8, +10 @@

7409 jm 17 0 964 34300 31m 2280 0 0.0 3.1 0:00 perl
}}}

- Looking at the above 'top' output, it appears that the two spamd processes
+ Looking at the above 'top' output, it appears that the two processes
listed are sharing a pitiful 2280KB of memory pages -- 3.4% of their total memory usage. However, all's not as it seems.

Are you running Linux? If so, this is an annoying bug somewhere between 'top' and Linux memory management.