[SpamAssassin Wiki] Updated: ProfilingRulesWithDprof

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   Date: 2004-09-09T09:49:13
   Editor: JustinMason <jm...@jmason.org>
   Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
   Page: ProfilingRulesWithDprof
   URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ProfilingRulesWithDprof

   note stupid DProf bug

Change Log:

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@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
   dprofpp -O 999 > profile.out
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+Note that sometimes the {{{perl -d:DProf}}} line will produce a core dump!   This seems to be a bug in DProf, and immediately re-running that line will work fine and produce usable output regardless.
+
 You can also use the {{{spamassassin}}} script instead of {{{mass-check}}}, but {{{mass-check}}} scans more messages, and gives a better idea of per-message performance as it would appear where {{{spamd}}} is used.
 
 'profile.out' now contains profiling output from the code.  Due to the way that SpamAssassin compiles runs into perl functions, these will show up in the profile data.  Here's an example: