Page faults every few days

[Jaime]

On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 12:10  AM, paul beard wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2003, at 8:50 PM, Jaime wrote:
>> current process         = 26642 (perl5.00503)
>
> any idea what perl-based job is running and if moving to a newer perl 
> version would have any effect at all?

	Its probably SpamAssassin, which is run against every incoming 
message.  This causes it to have lots of copies in memory at once and 
to run/quit very often.  I don't think that updating Perl will help (I 
don't see why a user-space process would interfere with kernel resource 
management.) and I has updated SpamAssassin several times since the 
problem began.

	It was a good thought though.  I wondered the same thing myself when 
this whole mess started.

							Jaime