Sean Rima wrote: > -----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+ :(
Crikey. Stick $25 in my paypal account and I'll mail you some! That's really insane if you're going to be charged $150. Matt. _______________________________________________________________ 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
