David
depends on what you call lots or RAM, CPU etc.
my old scanner took about 5 seconds to scan email with SA (URI_RBL's, bayes two normal RBL's, lots of extra SARE rules etc), Sophos, ClamAV, the extra checks MailScanner does and dump the email into a mysql DB for reports.
Given emails would normally be batched up into a few messages (2-5 average) it difficult to get a single email timing.
That was a 500mhz celeron with 512MB ram and an IDE disk. I would top out at about 17,000 messages per day of an avergae size of 26kb.
New scanner (P4 2,8ghz, 1.5 GB ram, Sata Disk) takes around 2 seconds per average batch and tops out at around 70,000 messages per day (without much O/S tuning).
-- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
David Velásquez Restrepo wrote:
Hi,
I'm user of spamassassin to reviw a lot (a lot!) of incoming mails with spamassassin lot time ago. Today i have a machine just running spamassassin, due the high CPU and MEM requirements. Just to be clear (may be i have something bad).... The question is:
Q) With spamassassin you need about 20 to 30 seconds per email message and LOTS of RAM and CPU:
a) TRUE
b) FALSE
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