Re: sa-learn causes fatal thrashing

2005-04-12 Thread Tristan Miller
Greetings. On Monday 11 April 2005 13:38, Niek wrote: > On 4/11/2005 9:31 AM +0100, Tristan Miller wrote: > > I have 256 MB of RAM plus 243 MB of swap space. Unfortunately, > > upgrading RAM will not be a cheap fix as I am using a laptop with no > > user-serviceable parts. > > > > Regards, > > Tr

Re: sa-learn causes fatal thrashing

2005-04-11 Thread Niek
On 4/11/2005 9:31 AM +0100, Tristan Miller wrote: I have 256 MB of RAM plus 243 MB of swap space. Unfortunately, upgrading RAM will not be a cheap fix as I am using a laptop with no user-serviceable parts. Regards, Tristan You could start spamd with only 1 child, to save some RAM. Niek --

Re: sa-learn causes fatal thrashing

2005-04-11 Thread Tristan Miller
Greetings. On Monday 11 April 2005 08:48, John Andersen wrote: > Why should your system stop just because it has work to do? Because it's thrashing. Just about any computer using virtual memory will grind to a halt if programs try to allocate more memory than is available. > How much memory do

Re: sa-learn causes fatal thrashing

2005-04-11 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 10 April 2005 09:18 pm, Tristan Miller wrote: > Greetings. > > I am running SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on SuSE 9.0. > > Whenever I try to use sa-learn on a mailbox that contains large attachments > (say, greater than one or two megabytes), memory and swap usage max out > and my system comes to a