Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-10-26 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > Might spamc/spamd gains from the fact that spamd pre-loads more things and > caches certain internal stuff, which is shared among multiple spamd > slaves, instead of kept into each MIMEDefang slave? Unlikely. I think the real speedup comes if there ar

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-10-26 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, David F. Skoll wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote: On any system with a lot of rule sets SA represents about 90% of the total message prosessing time. C vs perl makes a difference on that part. Yes, but I fail to see how spamd helps -- it still must, ultimately, cal

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-23 Thread Martin Blapp
Replying to myself. > If I look at spamds version of preload_modules_with_tmp_homedir() is is really > bigger than just spam_assassin_init(). This may explain some delay. There seem to be only path and tmp handling in preload_modules_with_tmp_homedir. And spamd calls spam_assassin_init(0,1) and

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-23 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, > > On any system with a lot of rule sets SA represents about 90% of the total > > message prosessing time. C vs perl makes a difference on that part. Hmm, If I look at spamds version of preload_modules_with_tmp_homedir() is is really bigger than just spam_assassin_init(). This may explain

RE: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 4:39 PM -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you configure MIMEDefang to use spamc? There's no API in MD for it. You have to modify your custom filter to do it. ___ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote: > On any system with a lot of rule sets SA represents about 90% of the total > message prosessing time. C vs perl makes a difference on that part. ??? But spamd is written in pure Perl -- there's not an ounce of C there. So you're saying that invoking sp

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote: > On any system with a lot of rule sets SA represents about 90% of the total > message prosessing time. C vs perl makes a difference on that part. Yes, but I fail to see how spamd helps -- it still must, ultimately, call into the exact same Perl API as any

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread John Scully
ram used. - Original Message - From: "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd > > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote: > > > 1) The compi

RE: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
David F. Skoll wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote: > >> 1) The compiled C spamd processes messages faster then the perl >> module. > > I can't believe that. The message processing is still done in Perl, > after all. > There are other reasons to run spamc/spamd besides C... for e

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote: > 1) The compiled C spamd processes messages faster then the perl module. I can't believe that. The message processing is still done in Perl, after all. > 2) We run DCC via dccifd before SA and don't bother running SA if DCC has > the message listed. Tha

RE: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
John Scully wrote: > I found a very large performance increase by using > spamc/spamd over the > Mail::SpamAssassin module for several reasons: How do you configure MIMEDefang to use spamc? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com S

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread John Scully
uses less then 100M memory. John Scully iSupportISP.com - Original Message - From: "Kelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: &

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread Peter Curran
edefang.pl. 2) How can I verify that mimedefang is scanning files with bad extensions? Thank you, peter - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:59:07 -0700 Subject: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd > What's the

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread Kelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the conventional wisdom with using MIMDefang and SpamAssassin? > Can MIMEDefang invoke spamc to communicate with spamd? Is this better > than calling the Mail::SpamAssassin perl module directly? No, and no. Since MD is already in Perl, invoking spamc and calling spa

[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

2004-09-22 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
What's the conventional wisdom with using MIMDefang and SpamAssassin? Can MIMEDefang invoke spamc to communicate with spamd? Is this better than calling the Mail::SpamAssassin perl module directly? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.co