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On Wednesday 11 January 2006 9:10 pm, jdow wrote:
> On 2.64 I'm not sure what's the forking process. It may be modestly
> painful. But an extra 3 seconds every hour and a half is no big tax
> to pay on your machine's performance unless you're trying to play
> precision timing games in the background. Heck, you could run raw
> spamassassin and not really see any performance loss on your machine
> at a puny one message every 6 minutes, I think you said as your rough
> message level. The only machine on which I've had problems with the
> 1500 messages a day traffic level is the 66 MHz Pentium with 256 M
> of memory that was pretty much swamped. It took 20 seconds to 30 seconds
> to process a message.
>
> I believe prefork simply means that spamd used up its child, which lives
> for one message worth of processing, and that it is creating a new child
> ahead of time so it is ready for the next message.
>
> {^_^}
Thanks Joanne, with that said, I'll leave things as they are for now.
Appreciate the replies.
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Chris
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