On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:19:19AM -0500, Jaime wrote:Its probably SpamAssassin, which is run against every incoming
message. This causes it to have lots of copies in memory at once and
to run/quit very often. I don't think that updating Perl will help (I
don't see why a user-space process would interfere with kernel resource
management.) and I has updated SpamAssassin several times since the
problem began.
You probably know, maybe spamd is better than invoking so many perl instances
This is actually what I'm doing. However, spamd is a perl process.
zeus:jkikpole>ps auxww|grep spamd
root 822 0.0 3.8 21112 9924 ?? Is Tue09AM 2:15.08 /usr/local/bin/spamd -a -c -d (perl5.00503)
Odd.... For once we have less than 5 spamd processes running concurrently. I guess that is what happens at a public school as nearly 3am on a Sunday morning. :)
Jaime
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