Re: [SAtalk] RBL slowness

2002-12-06 Thread Rich Puhek
Sure do, but eventually I'll try to lookup a non-cached record. If the server is not responding, then we have to wait for DNS to time out. --Rich Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Stephen Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks! Setting 'rbl_timeout 5' cut the time down to 10 seconds per mesage, instead of

Re: [SAtalk] RBL slowness

2002-12-06 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Stephen Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks! Setting 'rbl_timeout 5' cut the time down to 10 seconds per > mesage, instead of 30. Although I don't think 30 is a bad number at all, > it can start to be a problem on servers that have a high volume of e-mail, > and a lot of spamd processes get start

Re: [SAtalk] RBL slowness

2002-12-05 Thread Terry
Another dumb question. Where is "rbl_timeout" located? I can't find it anywhere. -- Terry Rich Puhek wrote: > > The dsbl lists were not resolving earlier today, still appears to have > problems. > > One fix (suggested by Matt Kettler in a different thread earlier today) > is to change the RBL

Re: [SAtalk] RBL slowness

2002-12-05 Thread Stephen Bader
Thanks! Setting 'rbl_timeout 5' cut the time down to 10 seconds per mesage, instead of 30. Although I don't think 30 is a bad number at all, it can start to be a problem on servers that have a high volume of e-mail, and a lot of spamd processes get started because they are just waiting for a respon

Re: [SAtalk] RBL slowness

2002-12-05 Thread Rich Puhek
Stephen Bader wrote: I've noticed that today my messages are taking about 30 seconds each. I'm assuming this is because of the same things you mentioned. Anyone know for sure what is going on? I'm not very concerned at this point, as I'm sure it will be corrected soon, but if it isn't, I would l

Re: [SAtalk] RBL slowness

2002-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:37:00PM -0600, Stephen Bader wrote: > I've noticed that today my messages are taking about 30 seconds each. I'm > assuming this is because of the same things you mentioned. Anyone know for > sure what is going on? I'm not very concerned at this point, as I'm sure > it wil

Re: [SAtalk] RBL slowness

2002-12-05 Thread Stephen Bader
I've noticed that today my messages are taking about 30 seconds each. I'm assuming this is because of the same things you mentioned. Anyone know for sure what is going on? I'm not very concerned at this point, as I'm sure it will be corrected soon, but if it isn't, I would like to know which checks

Re: [SAtalk] RBL slowness

2002-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:02:34PM -0600, Terry wrote: > Today I enabled RBL checking on spamassassin. It is REALLY slow checking all > of those blackhole lists. (Most messages waiting about 30 seconds) On average Yeah, today is fairly slow for some of them. It's not always like that, but ...

[SAtalk] RBL slowness

2002-12-05 Thread Terry
Today I enabled RBL checking on spamassassin. It is REALLY slow checking all of those blackhole lists. (Most messages waiting about 30 seconds) On average we do about 40,000 messages a week, so it's not that big a deal, but I am a little worried about memory problems when the spammers send in a