Bob, sounds like you're willing to write some code :)
The best place to start is in http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/ The bug numbers of interest there for performance improvements are #47 and #62. It's important to realize that some rules score -ve, so you have to be careful about the order in which they are evaluated if you want to short-circuit out if the score ever exceeds a particular threshold. I think it would be most useful to first work on #47 and then rewrite a bunch of the rules as two-part checks with the first part being speedy. Patches (diff -u) are best sent to this list as attachments. C On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 13:41, Bob Plankers wrote: > Hello all, > > I've started looking at SA with an eye towards implementing it as an > opt-in spam filter for our mail systems here at the University of > Wisconsin - Madison. I began using it personally about three weeks ago and > I have been impressed by it. I really like the way SpamAssassin works with > the scoring of email, such that things like ORBS and the RBL only > contribute to the score, and don't cause outright rejection. However, SA > is really slow, and I need to deal with 150-200 email messages per second > for 85,000 accounts without a room full of hardware. > > I've been reading the threads about porting SA to C, and am incredibly > interested in that in conjunction with spamproxyd. I was also planning on > disabling some of the checks, like Razor, for extra speed. > > I did have a few questions, that I was hoping someone could answer: > > 1) Why does SA continue the checks when the mail has already exceeded the > required_hits value? Would it be worth it to add a flag to stop the > checks? I can see the informational value in knowing that your mail has a > score of 32.82, but if you're like me and just trying to move as much mail > as possible... > > 2) Was the C version of SA going to end up somewhere public? :-) A'rpi? > > 3) Was there already an effort to reorder/reevaluate the rules for speed? > I did catch the discussion about the slower rules, but if people here at > the UW are going to futz with things in SA I'd like them to futz with > things people aren't already working on. :-) > > 4) How do you guys want patches? > > Thanks, all. Have a good day. > > ...Bob > > ...................................................................... > Bob Plankers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of Wisconsin - Madison +1.608.262.7783 > Division of Information Technology http://bob.plankers.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
