RE: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-02 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 10:11 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: very slow performance with SA > > >> 3) As a test, you might want to back out all of SARE's ru

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:19:46AM -0800, Robert Menschel wrote: > I can't answer that rate question (is it normal?), since I don't run a > server, but my mass-check runs process a corpus of 114241 emails > against all distribution and SARE rules in 10 hours, giving me a rate > slightly over 3 emai

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-02 Thread Loren Wilton
> 3) As a test, you might want to back out all of SARE's rules and check your > message processing speed with stock-rules only. That should be very fast. Or more to the point, get rid of BigEvil. That has been known to cause exactly this problem. Loren

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-02 Thread jdow
From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 01:39 PM 2/1/2005, Alan Shine wrote: > > >when I'm running SA with the default ruleset (the one that comes > >with the installation), it proccesses 16 messages per second. > >I don't know if it is the avarage amount of messages that SA can proccess. >

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:39 PM 2/1/2005, Alan Shine wrote: when I'm running SA with the default ruleset (the one that comes with the installation), it proccesses 16 messages per second. I don't know if it is the avarage amount of messages that SA can proccess. anyway - 16 per second is not good enough for me - becaus

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Alan Shine
Michael Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:40:35AM -0800, Alan Shine wrote:>> 2. I can't figure out how to turn URIDNSBL off (I couldn't find it > >in the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf). So...how can I turn it off?>Comment out the loadplugin line in init.pre>> 3. The emails t

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Michael Parker
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:40:35AM -0800, Alan Shine wrote: > 2. I can't figure out how to turn URIDNSBL off (I couldn't find it >in the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf). So...how can I turn it off? Comment out the loadplugin line in init.pre > 3. The emails that are missed as spam have SA markup,

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Alan Shine
Alan Shine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:59:02AM -0800, Alan Shine wrote:> > I understand, but allthough I'm running 5 max children ny CPU is between 0-2% idle. > > (I have dual CPU with hyper thread).> Possibly you are IO bound. Di

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Michael Parker
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:59:02AM -0800, Alan Shine wrote: > > I understand, but allthough I'm running 5 max children ny CPU is between 0-2% > idle. > > (I have dual CPU with hyper thread). > Possibly you are IO bound. Did you turn off bayes/awl? Maybe you're running URIDNSBL which may not

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Alan Shine
Michael Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:39:14AM -0800, Alan Shine wrote:>> >>I have one spamd - with the default of 5 max children.>>>This is likely your problem, if you are truly processing at 16 a sec>then 5 children probably won't handle the load. Try upping the nu

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Michael Parker
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:39:14AM -0800, Alan Shine wrote: > > I have one spamd - with the default of 5 max children. > This is likely your problem, if you are truly processing at 16 a sec then 5 children probably won't handle the load. Try upping the number of children available. The optimal

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Alan Shine
Hi, thanks a lot for your answers, I wrote my responses right after every answer. >jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>It sounds like you are trying to run DNS based rules either without a>DNS or off a test site that does not exist anymore. Some of the BLs that>used to be available are gone. >And you

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:28 AM 2/1/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: know issue with sa 3.0x and spamc/spamd. Will ne Fixed with 3.10 work around is lower number of children allowed or apply following patches.. http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3983 That really should only be an issue if you are running m

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:27 AM 2/1/2005, Alan Shine wrote: I'm new to SA, and currently testing it in order to integrate it with our systems. The performance appears to be very bad - 6 messages per second. I'm running SA 3.0.1 on DL380 - dual CPU, hyper thread, 4G RAM, with Redhat 8. spamd is running with the rules

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread jdow
It sounds like you are trying to run DNS based rules either without a DNS or off a test site that does not exist anymore. Some of the BLs that used to be available are gone. And you should upgrade to 3.0.2 for some stability reasons. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Alan Shine" <[EMAIL

Re: very slow performance with SA

2005-02-01 Thread leonard . gray
Hi Alan, I found out the hard way about this problem as well.  Here's the response I got previously on this issue: Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/19/2005 01:02 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject Re: New to SA, problems with production speed