Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Loren Wilton
ing that maybe a few people would try this experiment. Loren - Original Message - From: "Rosenbaum, Larry M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:57 AM Subject: RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0 From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

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Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Matthew Newton
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:27:38PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > What's this "use bytes" thing and where do you add it and what does it do? #! /usr/bin/perl use Google; -- Matthew Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Services, I.T. Services, University of Le

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Mark Martinec
Justin Mason wrote: > I have a theory that this would indeed cause major slowdowns, since > every warning message has to be transmitted via UDP to the syslogd > daemon, who then writes it synchronously to disk. That is a pretty > slow operation, and causes I/O. Just a guess: if strings being proc

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:58:17PM -0700, Jerry Durand wrote: > If you have Perl 5.8.8, you don't need to do this. > When the SARE rules are updated, you can remove it. Alternately you can stop using the rules that have the problem, which would be easier. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: Hard where

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Jerry Durand
At 12:27 PM 5/10/2007, Marc Perkel wrote: What's this "use bytes" thing and where do you add it and what does it do? It's a temporary workaround for the UTF-8 problem. You add it after the "use warnings;" in the file message.pm. Mine is located in: /system/library/perl/extras/5.8.6/mail/spama

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Marc Perkel
What's this "use bytes" thing and where do you add it and what does it do?

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Doc Schneider
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: Doc Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> If he is getting the UTF-8 error, this would indeed be odd, since he > is >> using perl-5.8.8 which supposedly handles those regexps whic

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> -Original Message- > From: Doc Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If he is getting the UTF-8 error, this would indeed be odd, since he is > using perl-5.8.8 which supposedly handles those regexps which causes the > error. > > What SARE rules are you running Larry? /usr/local/spam

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Doc Schneider
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Mason wrote: > Rosenbaum, Larry M. writes: >>> From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0 >>> >>> It would be interesting on some system experiencing this

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Did you have a massive volume of "Malformed UTF-8" warning messages in the > syslog output? No, I upgraded Perl to v5.8.8, which got rid of the warning messages but there was still a performance problem. Adding "use bytes" seems to have fixed

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Justin Mason
Rosenbaum, Larry M. writes: > > From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0 > > > > It would be interesting on some system experiencing this slowdown to > put > > 'use bytes' back into SA and se

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0 > > It would be interesting on some system experiencing this slowdown to put > 'use bytes' back into SA and see what happens with the performance. This > wouldn't be any so

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, here, P4 HT 3.06 GHz, 2 GB RAM (just added 1GB, wanted to test performance) Debian Sarge pretty standard, Perl 5.8.8 from Backports, SA 3.2.0 from source, re2c 0.12.0 from source, a bunch of SARE and openprotect rules, several plugins, sa-compile delivered this: # time sa-compile real2

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Duane Hill
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Took 10 mins on my 2.8gh 512mb ram, with a bunch of sares rules. You using .12.0 of re2c? Yes. I think most of the time is spent in the rule extraction steps and the gcc compiles, and not in the re2c steps. (gcc is v3.4.6) Yes, you are right

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
> > Took 10 mins on my 2.8gh 512mb ram, with a bunch of sares rules. > > You using .12.0 of re2c? Yes. I think most of the time is spent in the rule extraction steps and the gcc compiles, and not in the re2c steps. (gcc is v3.4.6) > > Yes, you are right, after "use warnings;". I ran SA3.2 on

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Stephan Menzel
Am Dienstag, 8. Mai 2007 20:09:42 schrieb Rosenbaum, Larry M.: > I am getting really poor performance with v3.2.0 compared with v3.1.8. So do we. I'm quite sorry to bring this subject up again, but bayes expire is no explanation for us. We are running spamd 3.1x on a cluster of Debian Linux box

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-09 Thread Duane Hill
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: Rosenbaum, Larry M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:10 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0 sa-compile took 3 hours to run. (System is a

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Rosenbaum, Larry M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 10:10 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0 > > sa-compile took 3 hours to run. (System is a SunFire v210 >

Re: [SPAM] RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-09 Thread Vincent Li
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Bayes auto expiries (taking to long and getting killed)? I think that's a 600 second timeout. We're not using auto-expiry. Bayes expiry is being done with a batch job. It would be interesting on some system experiencing this slowdown to put

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-09 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
>> Bayes auto expiries (taking to long and getting killed)? I think >> that's a 600 second timeout. We're not using auto-expiry. Bayes expiry is being done with a batch job. > It would be interesting on some system experiencing this slowdown to put > 'use bytes' back into SA and see what happe

RE: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-09 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:01 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0 > > > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:45:32PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:45:32PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: I have to admit that I'm seeing higher server load levels since upgrading to 3.2.0 from 3.1.8 as well. It was enough to make me wonder if some ne features were slowing things down. Last time I checke

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-08 Thread Loren Wilton
It would be interesting on some system experiencing this slowdown to put 'use bytes' back into SA and see what happens with the performance. This wouldn't be any sort of a solution, but it would be an interesting data point. Loren I have to admit that I'm seeing higher server load lev

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:45:32PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > I have to admit that I'm seeing higher server load levels since > upgrading to 3.2.0 from 3.1.8 as well. It was enough to make me wonder > if some ne features were slowing things down. Last time I checked, which has been a while, gra

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Jerry Durand wrote: At 01:26 PM 5/8/2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Bayes auto expiries (taking to long and getting killed)? I think that's a 600 second timeout. A couple of months ago I was getting a lot of timeouts due to auto-expire so I disabled it and set a cron job to stop the mail

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-08 Thread Jerry Durand
At 01:26 PM 5/8/2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Bayes auto expiries (taking to long and getting killed)? I think that's a 600 second timeout. A couple of months ago I was getting a lot of timeouts due to auto-expire so I disabled it and set a cron job to stop the mail server and force expir

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-08 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Running SpamAssassin v3.2.0 on Solaris 9, perl v5.8.8. I am getting really poor performance with v3.2.0 compared with v3.1.8. Average scan time per message is doubled (or worse). I’m also seeing messages like this in the log file (although not all the time): Tryin