From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 21:26:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8251B16A4DF for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (malkav.snowmoon.com [209.23.60.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7869943D5E for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:19:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaime@snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 39753 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2003 05:19:40 -0000 Received: from alb-24-195-202-60.nycap.rr.com (HELO snowmoon.com) (24.195.202.60) by 10.5.1.62 with SMTP; 14 Dec 2003 05:19:40 -0000 Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:19:19 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) To: paul beard From: Jaime In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <11D43A86-2DF5-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Page faults every few days X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 05:26:25 -0000 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. It was a good thought though. I wondered the same thing myself when this whole mess started. Jaime