I just installed this development release on one of our mailservers. It has some great new features but it almost killed the machine. The load average tripled, CPU usage went way up, time to scan a message went from an average of 3 to 20 seconds, swap usage went to 500MB, etc.
We used most of the same local.cf RBL settings and even tried turning off all of the DNS/RBL checks including RAZOR2 and but it didn't help much. All extra '.cf' files were removed.
Possibly we did something wrong but I need to ask whether the 3.0 version is supposed to be faster or maybe the development release includes much debugging code that slows everything down.
When we went back to SA 2.64 everything went back to normal.
We used SQL user preferences on both. (We assumed 3.0 could use the existing 2.63 tables.)
Here's the spamd start options we used with 3.0
SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -q -c -x -m5 -H"
Any suggestions would be appreciated since we would really like to start using the SQL Bayes feature ( - we had this turned off.)
At 11:48 PM 8/4/2004, Justin Mason wrote:
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SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and heuristic tests to identify spam (also known as unsolicited commercial/bulk email).
Downloading - -----------
Pick it up from:
http://SpamAssassin.apache.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-pre4.tar.gz
http://SpamAssassin.apache.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-pre4.tar.bz2 http://SpamAssassin.apache.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-pre4.zip
md5sum of archive files: ffbc9664affc3e316eb78fb83820f9bf Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-pre4.tar.bz2 8af807ea2e16b929d6ea6f7516a99b80 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-pre4.tar.gz 678220a15cdc4c377caee2c3ee3168f5 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-pre4.zip sha1sum of archive files: 71285d1e46cefbc29c246933bf1b5680fdbae4c2 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-pre4.tar.bz2 616373af46ddfe780622921e55cdaab4b33fa19a Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-pre4.tar.gz a78c8670b39e1928de800e339aedbd3d601ca3fe Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0-pre4.zip
The release files also have a .asc accompanying them. The file serves as an external GPG signature for the given release file. The signing key is available via the wwwkeys.pgp.net keyserver, as well as http://www.spamassassin.org/released/GPG-SIGNING-KEY
The key information is:
pub 1024D/265FA05B 2003-06-09 SpamAssassin Signing Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Key fingerprint = 26C9 00A4 6DD4 0CD5 AD24 F6D7 DEE0 1987 265F A05B
Summary of major changes since 3.0.0-pre3 - -----------------------------------------
- Security fix prevents a denial of service attack open to certain malformed messages; this DoS affects all SpamAssassin 2.5x, 2.6x and 3.0.0-prex versions to date.
- new score-generation code to perform statistical validation testing against scores.
- don't add -Wall to CFLAGS unless we believe GCC is being used.
- spamc: fix declaration of size_t var that should have been ssize_t, use int instead of ssize_t, test for timeout before test for newline.
- spamd: fixed bug in SQL use with no "User:" header.
- fixed rewrite_header bug with using parentheses in headers.
- Update build and test instructions for spamc under Windows.
- bug 3651: if calling compile_now(), the available Bayes DB will remain tied. a warning will then pop up (sanity_check_untie) before untieing. fixed.
- masses scripts updated to fix various bugs.
- Bug 3656: Fix broken sa-learn --backup.
- bug 3658: disable SenderBase rules.
- updated copyright and license texts.
- updated German translations.
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Best Regards,
Jeff Koch, Intersessions
