Hi Corwen Not English?
<pedant> The actual phrase is "as long as a donkeys ears" with use it was changed to "donkeys years" and then simply "donkeys" So, in answer to the question "how long will it take?" the answer "donkeys" would mean "a LONG time" </pedant> It appears that the phrase has been further augmented with the word "ages" by Spyros, to further emphasise the length of time. Etymologicaly yours - Chris -----Original Message----- From: Corwin Grey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 October 2008 17:37 To: ASSP User List Subject: Re: [Assp-user] rebuildspamdb.pl script running for donkeys' ages Ok, I have to ask....what is a donkey's age anyway? I mean a newborn donkey could be only minutes old. Or a mature donkey could be decades. Honestly, that's rather a vague timeframe. Should we begin measuring process runtime by solar and lunar cycles now? Eons? Yes, this process has run for 4.3*10^-42 eons now...is that too long? :-) Corwin -----Original Message----- From: Spyros Tsiolis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:45 AM To: ASSP User List Subject: [Assp-user] rebuildspamdb.pl script running for donkeys' ages Hello people, I have an issue with an ASSP v1.2.6 on a Pentium Celeron box with 512Mb of RAM and Slackware Linux v9.0 (i386). It's been running "rebuildspamdb.pl" for much too long and it makes the machine behave very slow. Any ideas ? I don't know what causes this . Some data : /usr/local/assp/spam : 252,097 messages (as spam) /usr/local/assp/notspam : 26,401 messages (as ham) ps ax gives : Aaaargh ! I don't believe it ! It stopped now ! I was thinking of posting this a couple of hours ago but I forgot! Since then it stopped! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway : ps ax gave something like 72 hours. Since the machine is pretty old (slack v9.0/i386), I am seriously thinking of re-installing but it would be nice not to :-) Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA, s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
