RFC: calculating scan times for messages.

[Julian Field]

At 12:57 05/03/2003, you wrote:
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>Hello.
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>I was wondering if any of you have an idea how I could time the
>scanning process for a message.
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>I am using sendmail and I was thinking about using the delay= data, but
>that would not be too accurate.
>What I actually wish to do is for a private littkle project of mine.
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>I would ike to estimate the following:
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>With the checks XX used and sophos, using Spamassassin with checks XXX
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>scanning a 500byte message takes and avergae of XX seconds (and so on)
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>Does this make sense at all?
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>I am just fishing for ideas.

I do calculations instead that produce a figure for the number of messages
per day that can be processed. With multiple scanning thread, the average
delay for a message is not actually very relevant, as several messages are
being processed during the time.
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