MS ruleset file sizes

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Fri Mar 21 19:44:59 GMT 2003


Hi!

> >What about making the rule sets in .db format. Just liek the sendmail
> >files, saves a restart also when i only update the rulesets. Would that be
> >possible? Faster for looking up also.

> The ruleset testing involves iterating through all the rules until a match
> is found. If they are .db format, then the order of the rules is lost,
> which is very important. As for speed, the current lookups are done from
> RAM, which is faster than any disk-based lookup such as .db files.

So whats the current limitation, how long could those files be ? :)

Bye,
Raymond.



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