On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > Might spamc/spamd gains from the fact that spamd pre-loads more things and > caches certain internal stuff, which is shared among multiple spamd > slaves, instead of kept into each MIMEDefang slave?
Unlikely. I think the real speedup comes if there are fewer spamd slaves than MIMEDefang slaves. > You've said to switch to embedded Perl to avoid those problems, so the > answer probably is no. Even embedded Perl doesn't help much, unfortunately. Perl uses a reference-counting mechanism for garbage collection, which virtually ensures that every page of memory gets written to, meaning slaves cannot share much data. :-( It's a serious shortcoming of Perl. > Anyway, would it be possible to use the spampd API directly, instead of to > call spamc? That way one could measure the speed factor and useage of > resources better. (No, I don't volunteer ;-) Sure. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
