Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
Dr Robert Young wrote: > I am just becoming familiar with SpamAssassin, so I am sure this may > appear to be an "obvious" issue to those familiar with the tool. I am > just learning the ins and outs however. > > I downloaded many of the SARE rulesets (not bigevil however), and I am > running "spamassassin -D --lint". It seems like it is taking a very > long time to run. Is this typical or am I "hosed"? Typical would be somewhere in the 5-10 second range. This test is in general slower than scanning a message with spamc/spamd, as a new perl instance gets invoked and the config files are parsed from scratch. (for reference, I used time and a spamassassin --lint run takes 6.948 seconds on my box, piping a message through spamc took 3.183s. SA 2.64 with network tests, bayes, spamcopuri, and several add-on rulesets in use.) Suggestions for debugging why it's taking a long time: 1) try disabling network tests with -L, as Theo suggested. If it suddenly becomes fast when you add -L, post here, and we should be able to make further suggestions to debug the problem. 2) If -L doesn't help, try removing your SARE rulesets by moving them to a temporary directory, and see if that fixes it. If it does, try copying the rulesets back a few at a time and see which file is the culprit.
RE: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
> I downloaded many of the SARE rulesets (not bigevil > however), and I am running "spamassassin -D --lint". It > seems like it is taking a very long time to run. Is this > typical or am I "hosed"? I am running it on a test system > (non-production) so it is not currently a serious problem, > but I want to be sure of what's up before I try anything on > production (probably in a few days). How many? Or better, can you specify which you downloaded?
Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
From: "Jim Maul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:43:10AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
> >
> >>eh, Theo, --lint doesn't require a message, it uses one of its own!
> >
> >
> > Oh. Hahaha. I forgot about that. ;)
> > Never mind me, brain is scattered right now due to work.
> >
> > My second suggestion is to do local-only in case there's a network
> > check hanging. Try "spamassassin -LD --lint".
> >
>
> Then why does the manpage state to pass it a message?
>
> spamassassin [options] < mailmessage > output
> spamassassin -d < mailmessage >
> spamassassin -r [-w addr] < mailmessage
> spamassassin -k [-w addr] < mailmessage
> spamassassin -W|-R < mailmessage
>
> All examples show "< mailmessage" after [options]. --lint doesnt say
> anything about not needing a message passed to it.
>
-Jim, "spamassassin --lint" is sufficient unto itself. The other examples
up there require input to process. The lint command simply checks that
all the rules are formatted correctly without actually running them.
{^_^}
Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I think you're not passing it a message so it's waiting on STDIN.
> Try "spamassassin -D --lint < /dev/null".
Er, Theo, --lint does not take any parameters.
{o.o}
Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
From: "Dr Robert Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I am just becoming familiar with SpamAssassin, so I am sure this may
> appear to be an "obvious" issue to those familiar with the tool. I am
> just learning the ins and outs however.
>
> I downloaded many of the SARE rulesets (not bigevil however), and I am
> running "spamassassin -D --lint". It seems like it is taking a very
> long time to run. Is this typical or am I "hosed"? I am running it on
> a test system (non-production) so it is not currently a serious
> problem, but I want to be sure of what's up before I try anything on
> production (probably in a few days).
On a 166MHz Pentium with limited memory it takes 20 to 30 seconds,
sometimes more if the machine is loaded down with other processes
at the moment.
With the 1GHz 1GiB Athlon machine I have it's more like 1 to 2 seconds,
sometimes more if I am doing something silly like several parallel
kernel recompiles or the like.
{^_^}
Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:43:10AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: eh, Theo, --lint doesn't require a message, it uses one of its own! Oh. Hahaha. I forgot about that. ;) Never mind me, brain is scattered right now due to work. My second suggestion is to do local-only in case there's a network check hanging. Try "spamassassin -LD --lint". Then why does the manpage state to pass it a message? spamassassin [options] < mailmessage > output spamassassin -d < mailmessage > spamassassin -r [-w addr] < mailmessage spamassassin -k [-w addr] < mailmessage spamassassin -W|-R < mailmessage All examples show "< mailmessage" after [options]. --lint doesnt say anything about not needing a message passed to it. -Jim
Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:43:10AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > eh, Theo, --lint doesn't require a message, it uses one of its own! Oh. Hahaha. I forgot about that. ;) Never mind me, brain is scattered right now due to work. My second suggestion is to do local-only in case there's a network check hanging. Try "spamassassin -LD --lint". -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "A committee is a life form with 6 or more legs and no brain." - Robert Heinlein pgpbIjPNo2w0L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Theo Van Dinter writes: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:27:32PM -0400, Dr Robert Young wrote: > > I downloaded many of the SARE rulesets (not bigevil however), and I am > > running "spamassassin -D --lint". It seems like it is taking a very > > long time to run. Is this typical or am I "hosed"? I am running it on > > a test system (non-production) so it is not currently a serious > > problem, but I want to be sure of what's up before I try anything on > > production (probably in a few days). > > I think you're not passing it a message so it's waiting on STDIN. > Try "spamassassin -D --lint < /dev/null". eh, Theo, --lint doesn't require a message, it uses one of its own! - --j. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFCzXe+MJF5cimLx9ARAtemAJ9ySH5n4jhFA0G+55kN1YhqSgcyCACgj+5x Aucgb/Qhk8RZxn8J1JI2f8U= =hPnH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
> I am just becoming familiar with SpamAssassin, so I am > sure this may appear to be an "obvious" issue to those > familiar with the tool. I am just learning the ins and > outs however. > > I downloaded many of the SARE rulesets (not bigevil > however), and I am running "spamassassin -D --lint". It > seems like it is taking a very long time to run. Is this > typical or am I "hosed"? I am running it on a test > system (non-production) so it is not currently a serious > problem, but I want to be sure of what's up before I try > anything on production (probably in a few days). It should only take a few seconds. As it works you'll see output about what its doing, which works also as a progress indicator. The output lets you know what is working and what is not. = Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator Information Technology Services (250) 561-5848 local 448 --- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca ---
Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
Dr Robert Young wrote: > I am just becoming familiar with SpamAssassin, so I am sure this may > appear to be an "obvious" issue to those familiar with the tool. I am > just learning the ins and outs however. > > I downloaded many of the SARE rulesets (not bigevil however), and I am > running "spamassassin -D --lint". It seems like it is taking a very > long time to run. Is this typical or am I "hosed"? I am running it on a > test system (non-production) so it is not currently a serious problem, > but I want to be sure of what's up before I try anything on production > (probably in a few days). > What do you mean by "a very long time"? On our servers it takes a few seconds.
Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:27:32PM -0400, Dr Robert Young wrote: > I downloaded many of the SARE rulesets (not bigevil however), and I am > running "spamassassin -D --lint". It seems like it is taking a very > long time to run. Is this typical or am I "hosed"? I am running it on > a test system (non-production) so it is not currently a serious > problem, but I want to be sure of what's up before I try anything on > production (probably in a few days). I think you're not passing it a message so it's waiting on STDIN. Try "spamassassin -D --lint < /dev/null". -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Veni, Vidi, Visa" - I came, I saw, I bought pgp0hd28EHyoc.pgp Description: PGP signature
