Hi Paul: It's hard to measure the actual impact, as this machine serves a few functions. However, my unscientific observation has been, that two other applications on that machine are gobbling up most of its CPU use.
Declude's use is noticeable - but minor - and seems to be mostly for Declude Virus launching the virus scanner. Also, keep in mind that in later Declude versions Scott had optimized the DNS queries that are directed against the SAME dnsbl server. My logic is - if it helps holding or deleting 10 or more percent of messages then I would just have to provide whatever hardware resources are necessary to run the additional test to save money at every desktop. If you are trying to ecnomize I would drop AHBL and then NJABL and only keep SORBS. However, I found that the AHBLSOURCES and NJABLSOURCES are pretty reliable, so I give them a high weight - where the SORBS-SOURCES test was eliminated because it's mostly false positives. Best Regards Andy Schmidt H&M Systems Software, Inc. 600 East Crescent Avenue, Suite 203 Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-1846 Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) Fax: +1 201 934-9206 http://www.HM-Software.com/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of paul Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] EASYNET tests going away December 1 Andy, You have all of these tests running? What's the impact on the server for all of these? What's your mail load? I just love having to replace all these tests every month or so, don't we all? LOL! But I want to lessen the impact on our server as much as possible. What of these tests do you recommend the most? Paul > > Hi, > > Yesterday's results of my EasyNet replacement candidates: > > TEST # FAILED Percentage > > AHBLDOMAINS............71........0.95% > AHBLPROXIES...........735........9.82% > AHBLSOURCES...........351........4.69% (reliable, so far) > > NJABLDUL..............274........3.66% (many duplicates with > SORBS-DUL) NJABLPROXIES........1,085.......14.49% > NJABLRELAYS...........118........1.58% > NJABLSOURCES..........265........3.54% (reliable, so far) > > SORBS-DUL...........2,664.......35.58% > SORBS-HTTP............737........9.84% (proxies) > SORBS-MISC.............80........1.07% (proxies) > SORBS-SOCKS...........873.......11.66% (proxies) > SORBS-SMTP..............5........0.07% > SORBS-ZOMBIE...........30........0.40% > > A) Do NOT use SORBS-SPAM. As they point out on their web site, it has been > infested with the mail servers of most major providers by the simple > fact that virus-infected customer systems have been sending arbitrary > emails, implicating the mail sever of the provider. I tested it for > two days and kept lowering the weight until I realized that it was not > at all helpful in > trying to distinguish spam from legitimate mail. > > B) I have been holding and/or deleting ANYTHING "proxy" for many weeks > now and so far never had any customer complaints about "lost" emails. > > Best Regards > Andy Schmidt --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
