On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Deephay wrote: > On 9/28/06, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am quite new to SA (a week of SA life), and the SA is working, the > > > thing is, SA is incredibly slow on my server (2.8GHZ CPU + 2GB Memory > > > + Qmail + Qmail-scanner). Here's a typical scan log: > > > > > > result: . 0 - SPF_PASS scantime=14.7,size=1689 ....... > > > > Hi, > > > > Problem is not that it is slow. > > > > That SA takes 14 seconds to deliver a message is not an issue, email > > is not a real time process anyway and transiting email from one > > gateway to another can take minutes or hours. > > The scantime=14.7 does not mean the scan time of spamassassin?
It does. 14.7 seconds to scan the message. > > Problem would be is SA would make high CPU load on your server. > > > > 14 seconds may be just the delay for the various network tests to > > respond. > > You mean the test form SA? Yes. The various DNS and URI blocklist lookups and Razor/Pyzor/DCC all take time to complete. A system snapshot (load average, running processes, memory consumption including swap) taken during processing of a message would help us determine whether there *is* a problem. If fifteen seconds is the high end of what you are seeing, you do not have a problem. > I have googled for this kind of situations and I found I am the > slowest. If I stop the spamd, the delivery will be much faster. If you are worried about a fifteen second delay in delivery of email you need to tune your users' expectations, *NOT* SpamAssassin. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Email is a best-effort, non-guaranteed store-and-forward messaging system. It is not Instant Messaging. It is not a general-purpose file transfer utility. Delays will happen. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Insofar as the police deter by their presence, they are very, very good. Criminals take great pains not to commit a crime in front of them. -- Jeffrey Snyder -----------------------------------------------------------------------
