Yes, thanks
I use dspam
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 03:24:35 Justin Mason wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 23:35, Karsten Bräckelmann
>
> <guent...@rudersport.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:06 +0000, Justin Mason wrote:
> >> actually, Bayes would be a good one to drop. If you also remove AWL,
> >> and comment out both "loadplugin" lines, you will remove the need to
> >> load the DB_File database module too.
> >>
> >> commenting plugins and removing rulesets is definitely the way to go.
> >> you may be able to keep some net rules active -- trading long scan
> >> times and latency for low memory.
> >
> > Why is that? Given the, uhm, quite low specs of that box, scanning a
> > message will consume a few seconds CPU cycles anyway. Adding net tests,
> > which don't require CPU but just "add" latency (well, background tasks),
> > should be less of an issue the longer SA needs anyway.
>
> I think we're agreeing. ;) Removing plugins means lowering the per-process
> memory footprint. I presume there's a very low messages/minute throughput
> rate -- ie. it's a 1-person scanning server, or similar. In that
> situation, you can set the number of spamd children to a low value and
> limit concurrency.
>
> BTW you definitely want to use spamd, rather than the "spamassassin"
> script. It's good at sharing memory.
>
> Obviously I wouldn't use this as a scanning server for an office full of
> people, but for a 1-man home network I can't see why not... it'd certainly
> be a nice reduction in power consumption. ;)
>
> --j.
>
> > Luis, out of curiosity -- why do you want to run SA on that box anyway?
> > Atom powered boxes with plenty of RAM are available for 200 bucks. That
> > box essentially would be bored and running idle, while still having the
> > resources to add almost whatever you feel like.
> >
> > guenther
> >
> >
> > --
> > char
> > *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu...@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
> > main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8?
> > c<<=1: (c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){
> > putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
