On 2 Sep 2016, at 17:38, RW wrote:
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Running sa-compile gratuitously doesn't make much difference on most
modern hardware, but it may do on something like a single-core
Raspberry Pi. I remember on a single core Athlon, it was 30 minutes of
100% cpu usage.
To do a sa-compile!?
FWIW, it consistently takes less than a minute on the machine where I do
my rule QA and have the largest and most complex set of custom rules in
operation: a 2006 vintage 2GHz Core Duo (that's 32-bit) with 2GB RAM and
most of that otherwise in use.
Beyond it not really being very expensive to do, I'd think the main
advantage to always compiling the rules on larger systems would be in
loading the compiled shared object once for use by as many spamd
children or mimedefang slaves or whatever as you have running.
