On Dec 7, 2003, at 3:42 PM, Greg Earle wrote:

> I tried to build SpamAssassin and libmilter (to go with a 
> Milter-enabled
> Sendmail 8.12.8)

Dunno about the thread stuff, but spamassassin is a RAM hog.  Each 
instantiation takes at least 16 MB on my sparc system.  That is, the 
parent process is 16 + 16 for the first instance when you try talking 
to it.

   -- MW