Michael wrote: > A fresh install of slackware with only the kernel, sh and basic command > line utils is clean and simple, but it can't actually do much. I can't > see the point of dropping useful programs because they happen to be > highly modular and make use of existing code.
I'm not trying to drop any useful functions in this little quest, just replace. I have been using SA for about 6+ years now and it has done me well. I know that SA could be seen as "highly modular" - and I'm sure I'd run a good fight with many Perl programmers who would say their code is also "highly modular". However, there comes a point when it starts to become over-dependant, and modularity starts to become bloat. I don't know if my config (I turn off many features in SA) requires all these modules I saw... I'm installing on Gentoo and was using it's package system to see what I needed (please, no big discussion about the use of Gentoo or using packages :P) and the list was huge as mentioned. This was why I thought about looking for something to replace it. If it does use all those modules though, that's a LOT of stuff to load, and who knows if SA uses all of them for all their functionality, or just some of their functions (in which case it slowly bloats because of loaded, unused code). With SA, there's also the overhead of having Perl itself loaded to run spamd, whereas if I had a compiled program/library, the overhead in code is much lower which hopefully means less memory and cpu usage and ultimately lower scan times too (I've seen emails with 28s scan times from SA before :P). This isn't so much a question of "should I be doing this?" but rather "can I do this?". Eli. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
