As soon as you touch swap space you're dead. It's not unusual to see times
for processes increase by 10 or even 100 times. (Although about 10 is most
common.)
{^_^}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul J. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks all.
I did check 'top' and did increase the memory to 512mb. It's the latest
ver of SA so I think it's running only 5 processes. It rarely seems to
dip into the swap space, though it does report all the memory as being
used so I was assuming it was merely processor time. The CPU was
certainly maxed out most of the time. I've removed most of the
additional rules and it's back down to 5-6 seconds now, but I'll add
them back one by one with a test period in between to see if I can
pinpoint what was happening.
I really want this to scale way up from where we are, so I guess a
reasonable machine with just loads of ram is the answer?
-----Original Message-----
From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
back down to 6 secs or so, but it would be very handy to have
the actual
times of each test logged so I can see which are the slow ones.
Check Top. This sounds a lot like you are thrashing. The rulesemporium
rules are fairly carefully written to not be processor hogs, although we
have made mistakes in the past. They have typically only showed up when
someone had some very strangely formatted mail messages. Now you might
indeed have hit some slow or badly composed rules; but I'm
betting you are
just out of memory.
There is a Wiki page by Daniel or Justin or some such on
profiling rules.
Should be fairly easy to find, and I seem to recall the steps
were fairly
simple, except they didn't work for me. :-(
Loren
