It's getting a little off topic, but keeping old hardware because it
still works can be a bit of a false economy. Yeh, it's nice to have it
working and useful rather than landfill. But on the other hand, they are
so inneficient as far as watts used, you could pay for new hardware with
the energy savings. It's a very similar analogy to the CFL/incandecent
debate. You are economically and energywise better off disposing of good
new working incandecent bulbs and replacing with CFL because the old
bulbs will use far more energy than their worth.
We pay about $0.16/kwh, and it's worth our while to replace anything
running a P4 or AMD 32bit processor with a new atom or amd64 processor.
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:31:17PM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
> > If you were nearby, I'd give you a gig stick of RAM to
> > solve your problem. It's cheap these days.
>
> I grabbed this 15 years old Pentium PRO machine from my cellar just
> for this extra SpamAssassin process. I think EDO DRAM is not cheap, it
> at all available these these days. Old rig, but but works find in it's
> purpose: SpamAssassin is the only application is does ;)
>
> cheers,
> jarif
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:06:05PM +0300, Jari
> > Fredriksson wrote:
> >> I have two spamd hosts, and spamc calls them seemingly
> >> random or doing some kind of load balance. -H option if
> >> I remeber right.
> >>
> >> Sometimes one of those are down when doing maintance or
> >> something..
> >>
> >> When spamc encouters "connection refused" it keeps
> >> retrying as told with --connect-retries
> >>
> >> But if the connection is refused, there simply is no-one
> >> listening. How about trying the other alternatives?
> >>
> >> I may write this patch some day, but it might be cool to
> >> have in the official version.
> >>
> >> One of my spamd machines has only 128 megabytes RAM, and
> >> I have to shut down spamd during the weekly
> >> sa-update/sa-compile.
> >>
> >> Another machine has 256 RAM, and I have to shutdown
> >> spamd because it seems it's backup to DVD routine needs
> >> lots of ram while writing to DVD.
> >>
> >> If spamc could cope with these outages, there would not
> >> be a need to alter nameserver configuration, spamc just
> >> would try another name found from dns.
> >>
> >> How's that, folks?
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