Justin Mason wrote:
have you seen this?
http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
That bug in Red Hat perl will almost definitely slow down SpamAssassin,
too, I would say. Can anyone verify?
--j.
I don't notice any difference between my RHEL 4 (not affected) and my
RHEL 5 (affected) installs. I am running SA through MailScanner, so I
may not be using parts that would be affected. However, if the counts
are small enough, the time differential is so small it would not be
noticeable to me on our relatively busy boxes. That being said, if you
change that 50,000 in the test loop to 500,000, it then spikes to 40
minutes for the first half of the loop (at which point I gave up),
instead of 4 seconds for 50,000. It does seem to exponentially slow down
as the number of blesses called goes up.
