[Followups to the SA users list, please] [SA folk -- this is a thread about why "spamassassin -d" performs poorly for Gary when run repeatedly over a large number of messages.]
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Gary Funck wrote: > I ran this as my normal user account, and my home directory is > NFS-mounted on another machine. And, the Bayes database is located in > $HOME/.spamassassin. > Now, why 'spamassassin -d' would want to query the database, or even > fetch my user preferences, I can't say. I doubt it's querying the database, although it's possible that it's checking whether the Bayes journal needs to be sync'd, but I'm pretty sure it is fetching your user preferences, because Mail::SpamAssassin is an object and objects tend to initialize themselves the same way regardless of what one is going to do with them afterwards. > I don't know if it is in fact > doing that, but if it is, that would explain a large part of the poor > performance. Try using the -p option to point at an empty local directory and see what happens. In fact, try using the -C and -s options to point _all_ the config-loading code at empty directories.
