On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Richard A Downing wrote:

>
> No nothing wrong with xmail, but I'm running my home system with xmail on an
> old 486/DX-2 box with only 16M of memory.  It runs fine, except:
>
> I want to run (F-Prot, Antivir and) Spamassassin and it takes quite a time to
> process each message and a lot of memory, (it will be better in 1.14 when I
> only need do it on incoming).  In fact, if I run a number of threads and get
> a big batch of messages from my ISP, then Linux starts to close down
> processes as it runs out of memory.  I have no more memory to give it right
> now.  Mem = 16148k total, Swap =47876k total.
>
> Am I correct in thinking that if I reduce the number of xmail mailer (-Qn)
> threads down to one, then only one instance of the filter can be running at a
> time?
>
> Is there any other implication of doing that apart from performance?
>
> Other ideas welcome,

Buying a new machine ? :)



- Davide

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