right now, the single most exciting thing that happens (other than the very rare package updates) is a nightly problem with my mail server. Its memory-bound and I don't any spare sticks lying around at
Is that why there is a missing word? After all it's only 4 bytes and you might need it for stack or something :). Seriously, I believe there's a setting you can tweak to reduce / minimize the number of simultaneous spamd's you have spawned at any one time.
