Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:40:44 +1100 From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Page faults every few days Message-ID: <20031214064044.GA1780@madras.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <11D43A86-2DF5-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com> References: <E458CEE2-2DF3-11D8-92B5-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> <11D43A86-2DF5-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com>
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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
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