On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:09 PM, xTrade Assessory <xtr...@matik.com.br> wrote:
> Julian Yap wrote:
>> I'm running SpamAssassin 3.3.2 port revision 6 (latest from FreeBSD
>> ports) on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE 64-bit.
>>
>> I recently upgraded my Perl from 5.10 to 5.14 but I needed to
>> downgrade because SpamAssassin was crashing on a daily basis. See
>> bug:
>> https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6745
>>
>> I have since downgraded my servers to Perl 5.10 and Perl 5.12.
>
> did you upgrade all perl related ports as well after perl upgrade?
>
> I never saw this issue
Yep.
2) Reinstall everything that depends on Perl:
sudo portupgrade -C -fr perl
>> I have noticed that Perl 5.12 runs noticeably slower compared to 5.10.
>> I think 5.14 was slow as well.
>>
>> Average scan times are higher and there are often more 'longer
>> running' scans. This results in more output on servers running Perl
>> 5.12:
>> tail -f /var/log/maillog | grep 'identified spam .*[2-9][0-9].[0-9] seconds'
>>
>> Have others experienced the same thing?
>
> this might be relative and depends on which tests you effectively run,
> don't you agree?
>
> specially network depending tests like dcc and others can influence this
> times a lot
>
> to say something exact, you probably need two different perl versions on
> at least two identical machines with the same setup on the same network
> running the same tests at the same time, getting the same messages
> synchronously, and still, one may get faster response from a remote
> resource than the other, kind of funny test for a perl comparison
Yeah, that's exactly what I have. Exactly the same tests, identical
hardware, network, etc...
- Julian
