I did that - with DNSBL off there are no port 53 communications from SA

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Jason Philbrook wrote:
> 
> I would run a tcpdump on the ethernet interface while doing this, just 
> in case there are network tests happening that you are not aware of.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:55:21PM -0700, poifgh wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> I was measuring how quickly could SA [spam assassin] process spams when
>> several SA processes are run in parallel over separate mbox files. I used
>> a
>> 8 core machine. Below are the numbers when I forked different number of
>> processes.
>> 
>> Fork = 8;
>> Rate = 57 msgs/sec
>> 
>> Fork = 4;
>> Rate = 44 msgs/sec
>> 
>> Fork = 1;
>> Rate = 22 msgs/sec
>> 
>> 
>> I ran freshly build SA with Bayes and DNSBL turned off. Why am I not
>> seeing
>> a linear increase in the throughput? Is a file locking creating the
>> bottleneck? If yes, which particular file is being locked? If no, what
>> could
>> be the reason for this?
>> 
>> thnx
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