I don't think anyone's tried it (yet) -- one issue is that SpamAssassin would probably have to use the general-purpose CPU, too.
--j. smeevil writes: > > Hi all, > > I was wondering of any of you ever tried using a PS3 as server for SA and > MailScanner , and if so what is the performance like ? This all because I'm > considering a setup on Ubuntu there it has full PS3 support. > > After some digging around I found a post with some results of "time pi > 1000000 >/dev/null" : > > PS3 : > real 0m35.989s > user 0m34.605s > sys 0m0.353s > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] GHz > real 0m10.616s > user 0m10.225s > sys 0m0.200s > > Core [EMAIL PROTECTED] > real 0m12.605s > user 0m12.525s > sys 0m0.080s > > The explanation of this follows as : > > There are two reasons for this: firstly, the PS3 has 8 cores on it. one core > is a PPC (power pc) and the other 7 are SPEs (synergistic processing > element), although only 6 are enabled. The pi program only runs on the PPC > core, which is general purpose and not very fast. secondly, the playstation > uses a hypervisor (i.e. an emulator) to make sure that you aren't doing > anything that you shouldn't (like trying to rip a bluray disc or something). > > Now i know that Novell (Suse) for example released special kernels for the > PS3. > I'm wondering if this will solve above described issue. > > All in all, Just curious about your thoughts and maybe experience in it :D > > Cheers, > Gerard. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Using-a-PlayStation-3-as-Server-for-SA---tf4810569.html#a13763907 > Sent from the SpamAssassin - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
