> If you were nearby, I'd give you a gig stick of RAM to > solve your problem. It's cheap these days.
I grabbed this 15 years old Pentium PRO machine from my cellar just for this extra SpamAssassin process. I think EDO DRAM is not cheap, it at all available these these days. Old rig, but but works find in it's purpose: SpamAssassin is the only application is does ;) cheers, jarif > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:06:05PM +0300, Jari > Fredriksson wrote: >> I have two spamd hosts, and spamc calls them seemingly >> random or doing some kind of load balance. -H option if >> I remeber right. >> >> Sometimes one of those are down when doing maintance or >> something.. >> >> When spamc encouters "connection refused" it keeps >> retrying as told with --connect-retries >> >> But if the connection is refused, there simply is no-one >> listening. How about trying the other alternatives? >> >> I may write this patch some day, but it might be cool to >> have in the official version. >> >> One of my spamd machines has only 128 megabytes RAM, and >> I have to shut down spamd during the weekly >> sa-update/sa-compile. >> >> Another machine has 256 RAM, and I have to shutdown >> spamd because it seems it's backup to DVD routine needs >> lots of ram while writing to DVD. >> >> If spamc could cope with these outages, there would not >> be a need to alter nameserver configuration, spamc just >> would try another name found from dns. >> >> How's that, folks?
