Hi, everyone Fresh from and flush with the victory of getting fetchmail to work, I installed Spastic, which filters spam with procmail. Then the world came slowly...slowly to an end. Everything started running exceptionally slowly - and finally K gave up the ghost; the mouse pointer even disappeared, and after hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 it took a good two minutes to get a shell up. Once up, the thing slowed even more and froze completely, and I actually had to power the notebook down and restart. I've checked in /var/log/warn and there's nothing from today; in /var/log/messages there are some entries regarding VFS:L Disk change detected oin device sr(11,0) which I have no idea about. Can anyone tell me how to troubleshoot this? Or if I should simply immediately uninstall spastic? Thanks in advance, Nick
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:01:59PM +0200, Nick Selby wrote:
Hi, everyone Fresh from and flush with the victory of getting fetchmail to work, I installed Spastic, which filters spam with procmail.
Then the world came slowly...slowly to an end. Everything started running exceptionally slowly - and finally K gave up the ghost; the mouse pointer even disappeared, and after hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 it took a good two minutes to get a shell up.
Nick, spastic is not the problem. It is just a procmail script and only runs when you receive e-mail. I would be happy to help you with any spastic problem you have. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
At 06:30 PM 5/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Nick, spastic is not the problem.
Absolutely right. It seems. After checking /var/log/messages there were many entries which referred in terms most unpleasant to my IOmega USB CD burner - the one which no K program yet has been able to write to. I restarted and left the system - along with Spastic, in Verbose mode, as Keith suggested - on and several desktops up, several programs running and waited to see if I'd ground to a standstill this morning. In fact, I must take this opportunity to say Thank you Keith and hallelujah! praised be all them who worked on Spastic. After getting upwards of 200 pieces of Spam a day (I once made the mistake of putting my email address on a website) and having gotten used to spending 15 minutes each morning deleting subtly-worded and ever-so-tempting come-ons inviting me to improve upon aspects of my genitalia, I came in this morning to find six messages in my In-box, ALL addressed to me, and ALL from people I know. I say again: Hallelujah! Thank you so much Keith, also, for taking the time yesterday to step me through my panic over the slowdown and suggest that I turn Spastic onto Verbose mode to monitor its activity, and also how, if I was just too freaked out for it, to disable it in one easy keystroke. So, too all those out there who care, and to paraphrase Keith, "Loath Spam? Get Spastic! http://spastic.sourceforge.net" Nick
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