> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:00 AM
> To: Garry Glendown
> Cc: Matt Kettler; users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: SA filter load: massive increase
>
>
>
> Garry Glendown writes:
> > Matt Kettler wrote:
> > > In general I'd take a look at the sizes of the rule files
> themselves..
> > > Look for ones that are significantly larger than 128k or so.
> >
> > Of those, there only few:
> >
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 384645 Oct 30 2005 70_sare_header.cf
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158513 Oct 1 2005 70_sare_obfu.cf
> >
> > Given both are significantly older than the occurrence of the
> > performance decrease, neither should be the cause ... in
> fact, the only
> > sare-rules that have dates newer than Oct 1st are sare_stocks and
> > sc_top200 ...
>
> for what it's worth, I would suggest an iterative search -- remove all
> extra rulesets, and re-add them gradually until you spot one or two
> that are causing the load issues.
>
> --j.
I'm shocked!! As you are a good coder! Why not follow the rule of halfs? Take half the rules out, if the problem goes away, its the other half of the rules, throw half the other rules in, and so on, always cutting in half.
Far less time then adding one by one.
Hmm... Theo, go check all of JM's code ;)
--Chris
