Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: DdH> OTOH, saying that DCC is I/O bound means that the limiting factor is DdH> bandwidth. In this case it is network bandwidth. You can put a DdH> super-powerful Athlon in that box, but DCC won't run any faster DdH> because it mostly sits idle waiting for data to come back from the DdH> network. However, if you got an OC3 line (or even just a DSL line) DdH> you would see significant improvement in its speed. (I presume -- DdH> I've never tried it, but your description of the symptons lines up DdH> with this hypothesis).
DCC is more latency-constrained than bandwidth constrained, but otherwise, your explanations were great! Thanks Derrick. DdH> | My Mailbox has 24 mb on it DdH> DdH> Oh, that's a limiting factor too. spamd takes up about 8MB on its DdH> own. It should share most (if not all) of that when it forks, but you DdH> don't want more than 2 or maybe 3 spamd's running at a time. It does DdH> hold the entire message in memory as it runs all the tests against it. DdH> I bet that, as you have it, you're running into a memory shortage and DdH> hitting swap a lot. By doing that you really slow down the system's DdH> operation as it must wait on the (slow!, by comparison) disk for DdH> memory accesses. Putting more memory in the system will likely give DdH> you the biggest performance boost over any other upgrade you could DdH> try. Unfortunately you probably need EDO RAM and that is more DdH> expensive nowadays than SDRAM. Actually, you can get a 128MB EDO stick for about $20 -- comparable to DRAM. So just eat at home tonight instead of going out, and buy yourself some extra memory. Those wonderful Koreans and Taiwanese with their horrendous price competition in RAM production have eliminated the "I don't have enough RAM" excuse. http://www.pricewatch.com/ C _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
