SpamAssassin and Virus delays

[Thomas DuVally]

We are looking to upgrade, but are hesitant about alpha code on
production systems.  I'd still have to hack it for Symantec, anyway.

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:55, Mike Kercher wrote:
> I think Julian said V4 is about 4x faster than V3.x  I run it on a
> production server and LUV it!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Thomas DuVally
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:24 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: SpamAssassin and Virus delays
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently put in MailScanner V3.22-14.  We've been humming along
> until we see peak times.  While delivery is fast, scanning is slow. Then
> we start seeing large delays (30+min).
>
> We were receiving over 7500 messages per hour, and were able to scan
> only up to 5200 in that same hour.
>
> To copy we turned off SpamAssassin and scanning of text messages.  This
> helped out a lot!
>
> I want to be able to turn on at least SpamAssassin again, but are there
> any tweaks I can use to help speak things up?
>
> Oh, one other thing, I'm using Symantec Carrier Scanner on Unix to scan,
> which I had to hack support for.  It can scan about 3 file a second
> (theoretically 10800 an hour)
>
> Any help?
>
> Will v4 be able help?
> --
> Thomas DuVally <thomas_duvally at brown.edu>
> Brown University
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Thomas DuVally <thomas_duvally at brown.edu>
Brown University