2007-01-31

A few of you may have noticed the server go down about once a week for a few minutes. Our spam filter has been fighting with so much spam lately that it is occasionally chewing up most of the memory on the server. To remedy the situation we've tweaked the settings on the spam filter, but we've also order an additional 2 Gb of RAM for the server, trippling the memory on the system. Next week sometime the server will be down for an hour or so, while the memory is installed.

It's sad that we have to add more memory to our server just to deal with the enormous amounts of spam being spewed around the world. Who says spam is a victimless crime?