Question for sheenaqotj (or anyone else that might know)

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Can you offer me any advice on tun­ing the per­for­mance of my old RS/6000?

http://rs6k-users.p90.net/lists/displayarticle.shtml?msgid=15396

I’d sent you email, (and you can see in the link above that I sent mail to my RS/6000 user group) but this is my mailserv­er we’re talk­ing about and I can’t trust it with the way it’s behav­ing under the strain these days.

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5 Replies to “Question for sheenaqotj (or anyone else that might know)”

  1. I’m look­ing at dana right
    I’m look­ing at dana right now, and I’m won­der­ing why you have all those spamd process­es run­ning. On my lin­ux and bsd box­es, I have one process run­ning with the fol­low­ing args:

    /usr/bin/spamd ‑d ‑c ‑a ‑m5 ‑H

    And you’re only call­ing the app with­out any argu­ments from rc.tcpip.

    But a PS shows lots of these jobs:
    perl ‑T ‑w /usr/local/bin/spamd –dae­mo­nize

    with a load aver­age of 17!

    Do you know where they’re start­ing from? I grepped spamd in /etc, but I’m an ordi­nary user and might not have perms to see everything.

    Spa­mas­sas­sin is prob­a­bly the big prob­lem. If you could get it down to one instance, every­thing would be cool. In addi­tion, you could com­ment out portmap and the dhcp relay dae­mon, you prob­a­bly don’t need them. Any oth­er dae­mons you don’t need can go, too. There are a cou­ple of AIX-spe­cif­ic look­ing dae­mons that I don’t know about.

  2. d00d, I just got copies of
    d00d, I just got copies of the entire Max Head­room series on VCD.

    I’ll make you a sudo’er when I get home. I don’t know where they’re spawn­ing from, except that I thought that they were get­ting start­ed from proc­mail call­ing to spamc. Does spamc cre­ate a new spamd if spamd does­n’t respond fast enough per­haps? That’s what I was thinking.

  5. Yeah, when it gets too far
    Yeah, when it gets too far bogged down, sshd flat­lines. That can be rather annoy­ing, actu­al­ly. It’s why I own a DOS-based note­book with ker­mit. i sup­pose a real dumb ter­mi­nal would be better.

    Thanks so much for your help!

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