On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:27:22 -0700 Linda Walsh <sa-u...@tlinx.org> wrote:
> 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 > Matt Kettler wrote: > >> How often does the whitelist get sync'd to disk? > > In the case of the whitelist, it's per-message. > ----- > *ouch* -- you mean each message writes out an 80MB white-list > file? That's alot of I/O per message, no wonder spamd seems to be > slowing down... I think it's fairly safe to assume that the Berkeley DB libraries were not written by people who dropped-out in the second week of C-programming 101, and never learned any more sophisticated way of accessing a database file than reading it in and then writing it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmap
