I tried increasing the timeout to 90 per a faq I found on the
mailscanner website, but it didn't help the problem.  I will try to
throw a faster machine together to test.

Thanks! 


Regards,

Matt Bullock
Troika Networks, Inc.
Network Administrator
805.367.2728

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of S Karthikeyan
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Opencomputing-openprotect] OpenProtect-5.0.1.7 released

Dear Matt Bullock,

 > Would that bypass the rules completely?  Part of the reason for the
> upgrade was to put all the rules into effect to aid in catching a
higher  > percentage of spam.
 >
 > One thing is for sure though, I wont try the newer version until I  >
upgrade the memory to 512 MB


Well, the following are the statistics on a Athlon 2100XP with 512MB of
RAM(no bayes used, as bayes db size was almost zero):

$time spamassassin  < /tmp/spam.test > /dev/null

real    0m2.918s
user    0m1.133s
sys     0m0.074s

$time spamassassin --siteconfigpath=/etc/MailScanner/SA/RulesDuJour/ <
/tmp/spam.test > /dev/null

real    0m4.919s
user    0m3.028s
sys     0m0.202s

$wc -l /etc/MailScanner/SA/RulesDuJour/*
1342 /etc/MailScanner/SA/RulesDuJour/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf
    253 /etc/MailScanner/SA/RulesDuJour/antidrug.cf
  11278 /etc/MailScanner/SA/RulesDuJour/bigevil.cf
   2487 /etc/MailScanner/SA/RulesDuJour/bogus-virus-warnings.cf
    182 /etc/MailScanner/SA/RulesDuJour/evilnumbers.cf
    212 /etc/MailScanner/SA/RulesDuJour/random.current.cf

15754 total

So, to compare each line of the mail to those 15k odd lines in the
rulesets directory, the total time to spam check a mail increases from
2.9 seconds to 4.9 seconds, a difference of 2 seconds. This may get more
as the load in the mail server increases.

So, either you can go for more RAM+Clock speed or you can try increasing
the SA timeout in /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf:

SpamAssassin Timeout = 40

But, a timeout period of 40 seconds is more than enough.If it takes
longer than that, the server may probably be feeling extremely high
load, in which case, bayes is faster than rulesets.

Eager to have your feedback on this,
cheers,
Karthikeyan, S.
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Opencomputing Technologies | http://opencompt.com Server Side E-Mail
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