At 02:26 PM 12.27.2010 -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: >On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:16:23 -0800 >Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote: > >> Larry Wall never envisioned the octopus monstrosity that Perl has >> become. > >Um. > >Just because you can write overly-complex slow Perl code doesn't mean that >all Perl code is necessarily overly-complex or slow. > >> Not that I am unhappy with the existence of SA but anyone who uses it >> must understand that an enormous amount of CPU power is wasted on SA >> merely due to the inefficiency of it being written in Perl. > >While Perl is part of the problem, a lot of the problem is SA itself >and some of it is simply the nature of content-based anti-spam >techniques... slinging around regexes, normalizing HTML, extracting >URLs sanely, extracting Bayes tokens, etc. is going to be slow no >matter how you do it. > >Regards, > >David. >
In my case a very small percentage of mail actually reaches SA because of several filters in front of it. Sendmail, Regex-milter, Greylist-milter, and other milters catch most of the truly bad stuff, and then hands off finally to SA. Thus, my server load is not so bad now. It used to be heavy indeed before adding the front filters. Jack (^_^) Happy trails, Jack L. Stone System Admin Sage-american
