Re: [SAtalk] SA performance information

2002-10-15 Thread Steven Saner
The virus scanning mail servers that are in front of this box are doing RBL and MX checks and tagging messages with X headers. I then have a couple custom scores in the spamassassin config for these headers. This was done prior to spamassassin for use with some custom procmail spam filtering, and

Re: [SAtalk] SA performance information

2002-10-15 Thread listuser
One thing I always do on my MTAs that use DNSBls is only use zone transfers of blacklists on my DNS server. I currently use 7 DNSBls from Sendmail, only 2 commercial lists. That brings the total DNS queries for each message to around 10. Now I don't deal with tons of mail per day, compared to s

Re: [SAtalk] SA performance information

2002-10-15 Thread Aram Mirzadeh
Did you even try to have a huge ass dns caching server on available, or just not even looking for these features? On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 16:19, Steven Saner wrote: > I use a dual P-III 1GHz, 1GB RAM. I churn as many as 80,000 messages a > day through spamassassin using spamc/spamd called from pr

Re: [SAtalk] SA performance information

2002-10-15 Thread Steven Saner
I use a dual P-III 1GHz, 1GB RAM. I churn as many as 80,000 messages a day through spamassassin using spamc/spamd called from procmail with a load avg. of 1-2, sometimes spiking higher during a big spam. Sendmail is the MTA and there is no virus filtering on this box (that happens before it gets t

Re: [SAtalk] SA performance information

2002-10-15 Thread Vivek Khera
> "g" == gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: g> Hi. I'm currently evaluating SpamAssassin for use in filtering / g> tagging spam, and I'm curious to know how well it performs. That is, on g> a given bit of hardware, let's say P-III @ 1GHz, 1GB Ram, about how many g> messages could spam

[SAtalk] SA performance information

2002-10-15 Thread Gabriel
Hi. I'm currently evaluating SpamAssassin for use in filtering / tagging spam, and I'm curious to know how well it performs. That is, on a given bit of hardware, let's say P-III @ 1GHz, 1GB Ram, about how many messages could spam assassin handle? Any pointers? Much thanks, Gabriel Cain. -