On Wednesday March 31 2010 23:43:25 Charles Gregory wrote: > Is there really a problem with the in-memory size? I would have thought > the major concern was the processing time for evaluating 'full' (and > rawbody?) rules on a large message....
Yes, sure, the main issue is with evaluating regexp rules over a large message. Nevertheless, even now keeping 50 copies of 100 MB memory-footprint child processes is not to be underestimated. Add to that several copies (raw, decoded, array of lines, ...) of a large message in perl's data structures can be a big deal. And bear in mind that once a process running perl extends its virtual memory, it cannot shrink back, so it stays huge forever after processing one large message. Mark
