Ramprasad wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 10:27 +0200, Bjorn Jensen wrote:
Can spamassassin benefit in any way from a ramdisk ?
The server we have for spamassassin, has 3 gigs of ram, and spamd
doesn't even use 1 gig of that, so I thought perhaps it would speed
things up if I could place something on a ramdisk. But this leads to the
question, does spamassassin do any disk intensive things ?
I'm running that gocr image scanning as well, could this benefit from
it, or is it the network lookups that are the slow part in any case ?
Currently a mail is processed in about 1.5 - 6 seconds
regards,
Bjorn Jensen
Can you get your MTA to write in the ramdisk while it is queing/scanning
the mail. That is where you will get most of your speed. But this may
not be a safe option always.
Typically using scanners like Mailscanner , you could do the actual Mail
scanning when the mail is on the ramdisk. That gives you good
performance benefit.
http://www.mailscanner.info/serve/cache/120.html
I appreciate the response on this topic, however I was merely interested
in the spamassassin aspect of this, and if I could gain a benefit there,
and I'm not interested in any mailserver options at the moment.
But once again, thanks for taking the time to reply.
Regards,
Bjorn Jensen
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