Re: SpamAssassin Ruleset Generation

2009-10-06 Thread poifgh
poifgh wrote: > > > > Bowie Bailey wrote: >> >> >> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=spamassassin+sought >> > :-D - Thnx > > Other than the sought rules, all the rules are manually generated? Is there any statistics on how frequentl

Re: SpamAssassin Ruleset Generation

2009-10-06 Thread poifgh
Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=spamassassin+sought > :-D - Thnx -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SpamAssassin-Ruleset-Generation-tp25773508p25776303.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: SpamAssassin Ruleset Generation

2009-10-06 Thread poifgh
RW-15 wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:08:28 -0700 (PDT) > poifgh wrote: > >> >> I have a question about - understanding how are rulesets generated for >> ... >> a. Is it done manually with people writing regex to see how >> efficiently they captu

SpamAssassin Ruleset Generation

2009-10-06 Thread poifgh
I have a question about - understanding how are rulesets generated for spamassassin. For example - consider the rule in 20_drugs.cf : header SUBJECT_DRUG_GAP_C Subject =~ /\bc.{0,2}i.{0,2}a.{0,2}l.{0,2}i.{0,2}s\b/i describe SUBJECT_DRUG_GAP_C Subject contains a gappy version of 'cialis

Re: Understanding SpamAssassin

2009-09-24 Thread poifgh
Bowie Bailey wrote: > > For auto-learning, the high and low scoring messages are fed to Bayes. > However, for an optimal setup, you should manually train Bayes on as > much of your (verified) ham and spam as possible. The more of your mail > stream Bayes sees, the better the results will be. >

Understanding SpamAssassin

2009-09-21 Thread poifgh
I am trying to understand inner workings of spam assassin and would be great if someone can answer my questions. I have read online documentation but there are still some questions left unanswered or I am not sure about. As far as I understand, the default configuration of spamassassin processes

Understanding SpamAssassin

2009-09-21 Thread poifgh
I am trying to understand inner workings of spam assassin and would be great if someone can answer my questions. I have read online documentation but there are still some questions left unanswered or I am not sure about. As far as I understand, the default configuration of spamassassin processes

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-03 Thread poifgh
1:55:21PM -0700, poifgh wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I was measuring how quickly could SA [spam assassin] process spams when >> several SA processes are run in parallel over separate mbox files. I used >> a >> 8 core machine. Below are the numbers when I forked d

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread poifgh
I havent tried with sa-compile yet - I can give it a shot -- Henrik K wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:41:47AM -0700, poifgh wrote: >> >> Henrik K wrote: >> > >> > Yeah, given that my 4x3Ghz box masscheck peaks at 22 msgs/sec, without >> >

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread poifgh
about 22 msgs/sec for 1 fork and 50 msgs/sec for 8 fork Thnx everyone for helping out. -- Henrik K wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:41:47AM -0700, poifgh wrote: > > > I did not say it was a problem. I was just wondering how fast CPU/memory > you > have, since my 3Gh

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread poifgh
t; - or happily, work make my contributions here limited. > > I'd be interested in the results of this though. > > Kind regards > > Nigel > > PS - apologies if I'm repeating prior observations. > > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:41:47 -0700 (PDT), poifgh >

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread poifgh
Henrik K wrote: > > Yeah, given that my 4x3Ghz box masscheck peaks at 22 msgs/sec, without > Net/AWL/Bayes. But that's the 3.3 SVN ruleset.. wonder what version was > used > and any nondefault rules/settings? Certainly sounds strange that 1 core > could top out the same. Anyone else have figure

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread poifgh
c. r. wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:55:21PM -0700, poifgh wrote: >> Why am I not seeing a linear increase in the throughput? >> Is a file locking creating the bottleneck? > > Maybe the auto white list. > > -- > I can try turning off AWL and ge

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread poifgh
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:55 -0700, poifgh wrote: > [...] >> I ran freshly build SA with Bayes and DNSBL turned off. Why am I not >> seeing >> a linear increase in the throughput? Is a file locking creating the > Because the bottleneck

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-31 Thread poifgh
Henrik K wrote: > > Yeah, given that my 4x3Ghz box masscheck peaks at 22 msgs/sec, without > Net/AWL/Bayes. But that's the 3.3 SVN ruleset.. wonder what version was > used > and any nondefault rules/settings? Certainly sounds strange that 1 core > could top out the same. Anyone else have figure

Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-07-30 Thread poifgh
Hi I was measuring how quickly could SA [spam assassin] process spams when several SA processes are run in parallel over separate mbox files. I used a 8 core machine. Below are the numbers when I forked different number of processes. Fork = 8; Rate = 57 msgs/sec Fork = 4; Rate = 44 msgs/sec Fo