-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 Apr 2002 8:15 am, Craig R Hughes wrote: > Sidney Markowitz wrote: > > SM> Personally I simply disable all network checks by using the -L option > to spamassassin SM> and spamd. I don't see enough benefit from the network > checks, they cause a scan of SM> one email to take seconds instead of a > fraction of a second, and there are too many SM> false positives. In this > case I consider turning it off to be a solution to the SM> problem. > > I agree with most of this, and myself run with -L. However, the seconds > sentence overstates the problem slightly. Doing the network tests is a > parallel problem, so while each individual message might take a second, > it's not stopping other messages from being processed at the same time; > since your machine is going to be waiting on network IO for most of that > second, it shouldn't impact performance of the server much at all, except > that it will slightly increase your memory requirements, since more > messages are likely to be in memory at a time.
Also, I cannot stress enough: Use a caching nameserver! djbdns contains a really nice one (if you're happy with his license), and most linux distributions even have an RPM called "caching-nameserver" or something similar. - -- Matt. <:->get a SMart net</:-> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8xn6B5tFry5Ir+lARArdOAJwOJLmguxO5R4Py8thJJG+6ZJHqBgCZAbjO GFK+UxXoClDlUsOoX2/9b3Y= =DfZV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
