At 17:40 -0800 03/19/2005, jdow wrote: >There is a substantial hit, Vicki, on the order of a factor of two on >my machines.
We are talking about Only when the Config File has Changed_. OK, so you get a factor of two, what, once a week? Sendmail does this (you run newaliases or "make"to trigger it). I simply do not believe there can be a "substantial hit" if spamd re-reads the config file Only When The Config File Has Changed > >You can accomplish the same thing you seem to want by changing your >call to spamc into a call to spamassassin itself. You can simulate >exactly what you want by changing to one child and the child runs >once, I think. no; that will run the config file every time. I do not want to read the config file very time. >Because the spamd speedup comes from caching the system rules as well >as from avoiding the perl startup time. That has only a slight peripheral relationship to what I requested. Rebuild the Cache IFF the Config file has changed -- Vicki Brown ZZZ Journeyman Sourceror: zz |\ _,,,---,,_ Code, Docs, Process, Scripts & Philtres zz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Perl, WWW, Mac OS X http://cfcl.com/vlb |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' SF Bay Area, CA USA _______________________ '---''(_/--' `-'\_) ___________________________