On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 02:52:11PM -0400, B. Cook wrote: > I have found that since I added the surbl perl script to my exim config > that some messages take massive ammounts of CPU in exim. > > I have removed the data acl scanning portion and have found that the > mime portion is more effective and less prone to this massive cpu usage. > > Below are the headers from a message that takes me 30+ minutes to scan > on a 2.4G HT box w/ 1G ram on a FreeBSD 6.1-p2 box.
how does the surbl script do its scanning? is it possible you're hitting one of the pessimal cases for perl's regex engine? -- ``The reason that the sun never set on the British Empire is that God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark.'' (Duncan Spaeth) -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
