On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:37:46 -0500 (EST), Charlie Brady wrote: > Any time you spend doing useless system calls isn't available for > spamassassin or clamav. Run strace against qpsmtpd (at least > forkserver variant) some time and you'll see how often config files > are opened.
Well of course. Forkserver is unable to cache anything except for the lifetime of the fork. And I would be willing to be the fork is way more expensive than extra stats(). Matt.