On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:19:19AM -0500, Jaime wrote: > On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 12:10 AM, paul beard wrote: > >On Dec 13, 2003, at 8:50 PM, Jaime wrote: > >>current process = 26642 (perl5.00503) > > > >any idea what perl-based job is running and if moving to a newer perl > >version would have any effect at all? > > Its probably SpamAssassin, which is run against every incoming > message. This causes it to have lots of copies in memory at once and > to run/quit very often. I don't think that updating Perl will help (I > don't see why a user-space process would interfere with kernel resource > management.) and I has updated SpamAssassin several times since the > problem began.
You probably know, maybe spamd is better than invoking so many perl instances http://www.spamassassin.org/full/2.6x/dist/spamd/README.spamd Gautam _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
