At 08:19 AM Monday, 6/16/2003, Simon Byrnand wrote -=>> Does anyone have any ideas as to why it would take 3 seconds to do the > following: > > Jun 14 07:28:29 yoda2 spamd[1289]: debug: entering helper-app run mode > Jun 14 07:28:32 yoda2 spamd[1289]: debug: Using results from Razor v2.34 > > If I turn Razor2 off, I get times of .5 to 1.5 seconds. Otherwise it's 3 > to > 4.5. > > Could this be related to cpu speed or dns or my setup? > > Inquiring minds want to know ;-)
Hi Ed,
Check back through the archives for messages from me for an explanation of what it probably is, but to cut a long story short, try adding -H to the end of your spamd options...(also if you use the -u option for spamd, make sure the spamd user account really has a home directory)
Adding the -H to the spamd options had the desired effect for sure! Average processing time was between 3 and 4.5 seconds. Now processing messages .5 to 1.5 seconds.
I could not however find the explanation in the archives but did read through the man page for spamd. Am I correct in assuming that by having a home directory specified for the helper-app, it doesn't have to look for one and saves the 3 seconds ??
Jun 15 16:01:19 yoda2 spamd[3543]: debug: entering helper-app run mode Jun 15 16:01:19 yoda2 spamd[3543]: debug: Using results from Razor v2.34
(Or something like that???)
What happens without -H is that when spamd does a setuid() to another user (other than root) the environment variable $HOME which is passed to helper apps like razor is still pointing to root's home directory. Of course razor can't save its files in /root when its running as another user so it has to do its server discovery process for every single message. (which takes 3 to 4 seconds)
With -H razor can cache the results of its server discovery and only do it occasionally...
If I remember correctly, Theo put a fix for this into 2.60-cvs...
Regards, Simon
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