Disinfection speed bogosity

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jul 25 08:30:55 UTC 2006


I have changed it to set it to 0 and not 1_000_000. Should make  
slightly more sense.
I have changed the line in both places to
$speed = 0 if $speed > 1_000_000 || $speed <  0;

Please can you put that in and try it for me?

Thanks,
Jules.

On 25 Jul 2006, at 00:59, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Julian,
>
> I cranked in the change below.  Now I'm seeing a whole lot of:
>
> Spam Checks completed at 1000000 bytes per second
> MCP Checks completed at 1000000 bytes per second
> Virus Processing completed at 1000000 bytes per second
> Disinfection completed at 1000000 bytes per second
>
> Not everything gives 1000000 for the "completed at" syslog  
> statements, but most of the syslog output does.  My setup is  
> Solaris 10 (Sparc, 64 bit), with sophos and clamavmodule.
>
> I don't deliver cleaned messages, and I don't use MCP, so maybe I  
> should not be seeing the "MCP check completed" and "Disinfection  
> completed"
> timing syslogs at all -- they don't happen for me, right?
>
> When I was looking at the code, I wondered about the differences
> in logic in MessageBatch.pm between EndBatch (lines 102-108) and
> StopTiming (lines 136-166).  The minimum cutoff for
>
> $totaltime = 1 unless $totaltime > ???
>
> is different for the two sections.  Is this really what you want?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:11:06 +0100
>> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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>> To: MailScanner Beta-testers <mailscanner- 
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>> Subject: Re: Disinfection speed bogosity
>>
>> On Mon24 Jul 06, at 21:43, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>
>>> Julian,
>>> I just noticed totally bogus disinfection speeds in my syslog for
>>> 4.55.8 (and 4.55.7), stuff like:
>>> Disinfection completed at 1080796982 bytes per second
>>> Disinfection completed at -1554448642 bytes per second
>>> Disinfection completed at -1 bytes per second
>>> Looking at around line 162 of MessageBatch.pm, I would guess that
>>> this routine never got the Time::HiRes retrofit since the minimum
>>> time there seems to be one second.  Is this a bug?
>>
>> Around like 158 make the code look like this: (note the 1 extra  
>> line in the middle)
>>
>> $totaltime = 1 unless $totaltime > 0; # Minimum of 1 second
>> # speed = bytes / totaltime
>> $speed = ($this->{totalbytes}*1.0) / ($totaltime*1.0) if  
>> $totaltime > 0;
>> $speed = 1_000_000 if $speed > 1_000_000 or $speed < 0; # THIS IS NEW
>> # bytespersecond = speed
>> $command = '$this->{' . $varprefix . '_bytespersecond} = $speed;';
>> eval $command;
>>
>>
>>> Jeff Earickson
>>> Colby College
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