-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Craig R. Hughes outgrape:
> DdH> Oh, that's a limiting factor too. spamd takes up about 8MB on > DdH> its own. It should share most (if not all) of that when it > DdH> forks, but you don't want more than 2 or maybe 3 spamd's running > DdH> at a time. It does hold the entire message in memory as it runs > DdH> all the tests against it. I bet that, as you have it, you're > DdH> running into a memory shortage and hitting swap a lot. By doing > DdH> that you really slow down the system's operation as it must wait > DdH> on the (slow!, by comparison) disk for memory accesses. Putting > DdH> more memory in the system will likely give you the biggest > DdH> performance boost over any other upgrade you could try. > DdH> 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. > Actually RAM has always been a problem for me because it is not that cheapo here, it pees me off when people say that they can get a strip for $20 when I would be looking at 150+ :( Sean - -- Sean Rima http://www.tcob1.net Linux User: 231986 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE VIEWS EXPRESSED HERE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF MY WIFE. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GPG for Secure Mail iD8DBQE9CRC/eR/L2ZZp3E8RAsZIAJ4uKPknCtJyS4sTgdNahfAf+h1ypACeK8WV McfnoOA7HReCCmPYZXmvAtU= =CbYe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________________________ 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
