Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-10 Thread Mark Rigby-Jones
On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:40, Steven Stern wrote: Have you tried running a local caching name server? That can cut down on times to do repetitive name lookups. Yes indeed, it's something we've always had on mail servers even before we had SpamAssassin, for exactly that reason. Thanks, mrj --

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:40, Steven Stern wrote: Have you tried running a local caching name server? That can cut down on times to do repetitive name lookups. On 09.12.07 21:58, Mark Rigby-Jones wrote: Yes indeed, it's something we've always had on mail servers even before we had

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-10 Thread Philipp Snizek
You use Bayes? Have you tried turning off auto_expire? From my expierence this can cause significant performance issues. Moreover, have you tried turning off bayes? without bayes scanning too a quarter of a second per email on a 2cpu, 8GB standard i686 arch, sa compiled as 32-bit app. Philipp

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-10 Thread UxBoD
SIP Phone: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Philipp Snizek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark Rigby-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:49:26 PM (GMT) Europe/London Subject: Re: spamd throughput issues You use Bayes? Have you

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-10 Thread Matt Kettler
Philipp Snizek wrote: You use Bayes? Have you tried turning off auto_expire? From my expierence this can cause significant performance issues. It shouldn't cause performance issues. It should only cause, at worst, one message every 12 hours or so to take a long time (ie: 10 minutes).

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-10 Thread Philipp Snizek
Philipp Snizek wrote: You use Bayes? Have you tried turning off auto_expire? From my expierence this can cause significant performance issues. It shouldn't cause performance issues. It should only cause, at worst, one message every 12 hours or so to take a long time (ie: 10 minutes).

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-10 Thread Rick Macdougall
Mark Rigby-Jones wrote: On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:40, Steven Stern wrote: Have you tried running a local caching name server? That can cut down on times to do repetitive name lookups. Yes indeed, it's something we've always had on mail servers even before we had SpamAssassin, for exactly that

spamd throughput issues

2007-12-09 Thread Mark Rigby-Jones
Hello everyone, We've been using SpamAssassin on our front-end to provide anti-spam services to our customers for some years now, but are trying to set up some dedicated scanning boxes to take the load off the main SMTP servers. Unfortunately, I'm struggling to get spamd to handle

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-09 Thread Paweł Sasin
Hi, are you using network tests? Try to evaluate spamd performance when run with the -L flag. -- Pawel Sasin WIRTUALNA POLSKA SA, ul. Traugutta 115c, 80-226 Gdansk; NIP: 957-07-51-216; Sad Rejonowy Gdansk-Polnoc KRS 068548, kapital zakladowy 62.880.024 zlotych (w calosci wplacony)

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-09 Thread Mark Rigby-Jones
On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:03, Paweł Sasin wrote: are you using network tests? Try to evaluate spamd performance when run with the -L flag. We are running network tests. Disabling them helps somewhat, in that the emails which were already scanning relatively quickly do so even faster. However,

Re: spamd throughput issues

2007-12-09 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/09/2007 03:27 PM, Mark Rigby-Jones wrote: On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:03, Paweł Sasin wrote: are you using network tests? Try to evaluate spamd performance when run with the -L flag. We are running network tests. Disabling them helps somewhat,