Can you also get a performance boost ifyou use the unix socket instead of the tcp socket? Someone mentioned this feature back in teh 2.6x era, but I could never get it to work. This assumes that spamd is running on the local machine.
Chris Blaise said: > > The biggest performance benefit you'll see is if you use spamd. The > pre-forking of children makes an incredible amount of difference. > > We ran tests with networking and bayes disabled and the improvement > was over 2x. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: scohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:37 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: any performance benefit to SA 3.0? > > I've read through the benefits to SA 3.0 but I don't see any mention of > performance. I was wondering: > > A) Does SA 3.0 use less memory/CPU then SA 2.64? > B) Does SA 3.0 take less time to decide if an email is spam then SA 2.64? > C) Does SA 3.0 do a better job of identifying spam with its default > configuration then SA 2.64? > > Thank you for your time. > > Steve Cohen > > -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana
