Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 02:52:08 -0500 From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Page faults every few days Message-ID: <6B1F15BC-2E0A-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <20031214064044.GA1780@madras.dyndns.org>
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On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 01:40 AM, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:19:19AM -0500, Jaime wrote: >> 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 This is actually what I'm doing. However, spamd is a perl process. zeus:jkikpole>ps auxww|grep spamd root 822 0.0 3.8 21112 9924 ?? Is Tue09AM 2:15.08 /usr/local/bin/spamd -a -c -d (perl5.00503) Odd.... For once we have less than 5 spamd processes running concurrently. I guess that is what happens at a public school as nearly 3am on a Sunday morning. :) Jaime
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