In my tests - there was not MTA. The mails/spam were collected from some server in mbox format and fed to SA using --mbox switch. The size of msgs was not altered in any fashion - just the usual size of incoming spam/mails
There are no AV [you mean Anti Virus right?] running on the machine Would be back with results -- Nigel Frankcom-2 wrote: > > I'm assuming you run a tad more messages than I, but on a quad with a > failover I have never seen the failover kick in 4 years. This is not > disputing your observations, just noting mine. > > I claim absolutely no knowledge about the core processing/stacking > though I would assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the parsing would be > part of the software (MTA). > > I freely admit I only picked up what seems the tail end of this thread > but having used SA for so many years I think I have at least a handle > on how it plays (hence the failover). My failover SA is in place to > handle slow queries from the primary SA. Assuming (again) that mail > size has been factored and any AV is running remotely? > > Just a few thoughts based on a very cursory read of a few posts, sadly > - or happily, work make my contributions here limited. > > I'd be interested in the results of this though. > > Kind regards > > Nigel > > PS - apologies if I'm repeating prior observations. > > On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:41:47 -0700 (PDT), poifgh > <abhinav.pat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >>Henrik K wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, given that my 4x3Ghz box masscheck peaks at 22 msgs/sec, without >>> Net/AWL/Bayes. But that's the 3.3 SVN ruleset.. wonder what version was >>> used >>> and any nondefault rules/settings? Certainly sounds strange that 1 core >>> could top out the same. Anyone else have figures? Maybe I've borked >>> something myself.. >>> >> >>The problem is not with 22 being a low number, but when we have other free >>cores to run different SA parallely why doesnt the throughput scale linearly >>.. I expect for 8 cores with 8 SA running simultaneously the number to be >>150+ msgs/sec but it is 1/3rd at 50 msgs/sec > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Parallelizing-Spam-Assassin-tp24751958p24761236.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
