On Friday 08 February 2008, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: >On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 01:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> The sa-learn --spam can process a message in 5 to 10 seconds or so, so if >> I've dropped 20 doofus mails in the spam directory and fire it off, I have >> it done and kmail is back among the living in 2-3 minutes. > >This seems *way* too high. If there have been only 20 messages total in >that folder, sa-learn should have processed these in a few *seconds* or >less. > >> But, feeding it a 'ham' directory with about 7k messages in it, turned >> sa-learn into a 100% cpu hog, [...] > >What did you expect? Based on your numbers above, processing that folder >would have taken 10-20 *hours*... > >> incrementing the message processed number only >> about every 3 to 5 minutes. I couldn't kill it, it kept coming back and I >> must have fed it a kill -9 50 times. > >Hmm. Kmail doesn't start one process per mail by any chance? > >> So what is the maximum number of files in a directory that one can feed to >> sa-learn --ham and expect it to achieve normal speed? > >Dunno if there are limitations -- however, your 7k messages should be >perfectly fine. Just ran a test on a 6k messages mbox file, and there >was no noticeable difference to a 30 messages test. > >> The command that kmail issues to it is: >> sa-learn --ham /root/Mail/(foldername)/cur > >You're not using root as your ordinary user account, do you !? > > guenther
In fact I do, but I have myself somewhat in a sandbox as all the mail handling stuff except kmail runs as an unprivileged user, and kmail pulls incoming from that mailbox in /var. I've been doing that for about 2-3 of years, started it back at FC2. And running as root since RH5.1. Yeah, I'm an un-repentant old fart. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) CPU needs recalibration
