At 03:25 19-5-2005, David Velásquez Restrepo wrote:
Q) With spamassassin you need about 20 to 30 seconds per email message and LOTS of RAM and CPU:
a) TRUE
b) FALSE
False. It depends on your settings and custom rulesets, but scanning a single message takes about 4-5 seconds on Athlon 800 home box. Of course, suppose it would be scanning 10 messages in parallel, it would take 'longer' per message.
Memory usage can be quite huge if you have many custom rulesets, because SA 3.0.x forks into several processes which all insist on making their own copy of the ruleset in memory :( When I still used the RDJ bigevil list (amongst others), it would use 96 MB of memory for each SA process.
Now that I've trashed bigevil and using URIDNSBL instead, each process uses about 32 MB of memory for me.
