Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
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
You could stick your /tmp partition on a ramdisk and in theory get a
little more performance, but most of your 1.5 - 6 seconds is waiting
for DNS queries to return (that's why it's so variable).
If you're looking for more throughput, rather than a reduction in
individual scan times, it sounds like you've got the memory for more
children.
I was more hoping I could speed things up for the existing mails, since
our system is not struggling at the moment, and the mailserver is the
bottleneck, not the spamassassin server.
But I guess this answers my question, thanks :)
Bjorn
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