I've been looking into my installation of SA for ways to improve performance. Things like using blacklists that SA tests for so I can block (if appropriate) before SA tests a message only to have it discarded later because it scored to high. So created a script to parse my logs and identify each test that a message triggered and to count up all the times that that test was hit.
The results are pretty enlightening to me but they have also prompted me to wonder about a couple of things. First, the Wiki says to disable a test just give it score of 0. Does that tell SA to not bother testing that test or does it simply discard any results for a test that scored 0? I ask because if I set a score to 0 to gain better performance I don't want SA running the test at all then. Second, the Wiki has 724 tests listed on the page which lists all the tests. Yet my script shows me that SA tested and found at least 926 tests that were tripped at least once so far this month. So, how many tests is SA actually running? The results are here: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/spamassassin/ The hits file is the gawk script I made to parse my log file for the info, the other file is the complete results. The bottom of that file shows total counts. ================================= Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator Information Technology Services (250) 562-2131 local 5448 My Blog: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/blogs/gagel My File share: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/users/gagel ------------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------
