Scan time

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Aug 14 17:52:21 IST 2002


At 17:40 14/08/2002, you wrote:
>Thought it was something like that.  Would it be better to have it log
>the entire time it took to scan the 100 including the spam checking?
>Not a biggy, things have been running slow on the mqueue.in.  I've
>narrowed it down to the razor checking in Spamassassin again.

I'm going to revamp the logging as part of the rewrite.



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:11 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Scan time
>
>
>At 15:05 14/08/2002, you wrote:
> >In the logs it states Scanned 100 messages, 3012366 bytes in 21 seconds
>
> >but if I look at the time stamp for that entry and the last one, it way
>
> >more that 21 secs.  It's more like 5 minutes since the last 100 scan.
> >Is this number just wrong if spam checking is enabled?
>
>Depends on the version you have, but the basic answer is yes, the
>scanning time is the time it took your virus scanner to scan the
>messages. The previous entry in the logs is printed just before the spam
>detection starts.
>--
>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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