[SA-exim] Who's using teergrubing?

[Brian Kendig]

I'm curious -- how many people out there are running teergrubes?  And 
what do you have your teergrube delay set to?  I'm using eight hours 
for mine, and so far I haven't caught more than about twenty spammers 
at any one time.

Also, is there any way to keep the size of the spawned exim processes 
down while they're teergrubing spammers?  Right now each of my exim 
processes is about 600KB resident with a little over 2MB swapped to 
disk.  So twenty spammers tie up about twelve megabytes of RAM and over 
40MB of disk, and if I ever manage to snare two or three times as many 
spammers, it might start making a dent in my server's resources.  Since 
the teergrube process is only echoing text over the connection and 
writing to the exim log, is there any way to pare it down significantly?


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