From: "David Velásquez Restrepo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Software:
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> A perl script wich takes some file and test it using Mail::SpamAssassin to
> get it´s spam score level
> OS: gentoo 2005.0
> MTA: postfix
>
> SpamAssassin:
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> Using: Net test, Bayes, Razor2, DCC, Phyzor, SPF Test (and everything else
> suggested by spamassassin)
> Rules:
> rules_du_jour:
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/bigevil.cf
> http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mkettler/sa/antidrug.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/evilnumbers.cf
> http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current
> http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current.uri.cf
> http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/random.current.cf
> http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/bogus-virus-warnings.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_adult.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/99_sare_fraud_pre25x.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/72_sare_bml_post25x.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/71_sare_bml_pre25x.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_ratware.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_spoof.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_oem.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_random.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_header.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_html.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_specific.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/71_sare_redirect_pre3.0.0.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/72_sare_redirect_post3.0.0.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_uri0.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_uri1.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_uri2.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_uri3.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_uri_eng.cf
> http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_uri_arc.cf
>
> Runtime:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 4 processes in parallel mode
>
> Harwdare:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Intel Pentium III - 1ghz - 512RAM (pci133)
>
> top:
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> top - 23:03:27 up 10:39, 2 users, load average: 5.47, 5.35, 5.19
> Tasks: 62 total, 2 running, 60 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 93.7% us, 5.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.6% hi, 0.0%
si
> Mem: 514036k total, 490044k used, 23992k free, 6892k buffers
> Swap: 987988k total, 49672k used, 938316k free, 38012k cached
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 27220 xmail 19 0 98680 71m 3064 R 99.9 14.2 2:38.51
> /progs/xmail/bin/mx_parser/mx_parser.pl - 1
> 27603 xmail 15 0 100m 95m 3064 S 36.8 19.0 2:06.76
> /progs/xmail/bin/mx_parser/mx_parser.pl - 5
> 28171 xmail 16 0 93604 87m 3064 D 28.9 17.4 1:11.20
> /progs/xmail/bin/mx_parser/mx_parser.pl - 4
> 27516 xmail 17 0 94644 88m 3064 D 13.1 17.6 2:03.70
> /progs/xmail/bin/mx_parser/mx_parser.pl - 2
> 27308 xmail 18 0 97960 73m 3064 D 10.5 14.5 2:35.46
> /progs/xmail/bin/mx_parser/mx_parser.pl - 3
>
> So, here it goes again the "simple", but not short, question:
> Q) With spamassassin (and all the above info) you need about 20 to 30
> seconds per email message and LOTS of RAM and CPU:
> a) TRUE
> b) FALSE
>
Given the way you phrase that belligerent assertion I am tempted to
simply answer "true" and leave you floundering. It is obvious that for
the way you have it configured you're going to take 20-30 seconds so
the obvious answer is "true", for you. Now, if you asked, "Am I doing
something wrong?" and approached it from that direction you might
discover you can run tests in about 5 to 7 second each for your
machine. I'll be presumptuous and figure this is what you really mean.
For the run times you cite you may have a BL configuration problem,
such as trying to use a dead BL somewhere. One other thing that can
cause this is a DNS problem.
You are using larger chunks of VIRT than I am. I use about 60M where
you are using 98M. I run with "--max-conn-per-child=15". You win a
little if you either add RAM or cut down to "-m2" or "-m3". You do
have a fair amount of cache in use. Once that happens you flounder
around in cache swapping when running spamassassin.
{^_^}
