> From: Menno van Bennekom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: David Velásquez Restrepo > Subject: Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this > question) > > > Q) With spamassassin (and all the above info) you need about 20 to 30 > > seconds per email message and LOTS of RAM and CPU: > > a) TRUE > > b) FALSE > My answer is b), False. > I have a mailserver here that has a 1Ghz CPU and 512MB RAM and SA on that > server usually takes 2 or 3 seconds per message. > Like already posted, some of your rulesets are unnecessary because they > are included in SA (standard rulesets or SURBL). > Did you check 'cat messages | spamassassin -D' to see what part takes most > time? DNS time-outs can take a lot of time for example (also checkable > with tcpdump port 53). > Also your SMTP-server (xmail?) takes a lot of cpu. I've never used Xmail > but I use postfix (and amavisd-new) and I think it's quite memory and CPU > efficient. >
Please don't take this as me doubting you - but how in the world are you able to scan a message in 2-3 seconds? I assume you're running some of the network tests, like other people that have posted 2-3 second message processing times, is that correct? My Dl360 with dual 1.266ghz CPU's, 2GB of RAM, and dual 18GB mirrored scsi drives can only scan a message in 4-5 seconds. At least that was my scan time with a completely default setup, running spamd/spamass-milter, SA 3.0.1, RedHat FC2, and sendmail 8.13.1. I haven't checked in a while (since I updated SA, the milter, and sendmail), but I have a good feeling most of my processing time was spent waiting for DNS responses. Any input into my situation would be appreciated. I'd love to be able to get down to 2-3 seconds, basically cutting my processing time in half! .jon
