Speed problems

[Michael St. Laurent]

Julian,

I don't know if it is relevant but I tried switching from clamav to
clamavmodule and within an hour my problems had returned.  I had to switch
back after running into horrible slowness issues.

Julian Field <mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
> I have been trying to reproduce the loss of speed running various
> different versions on the same mail messages in debug mode.
> Unsuccessfully :-(
> I have used versions from 4.23 onwards. All appear to run at the same
> speed. I am using a "reasonable" configuration with 1 RBL check and
> F-Prot. The only thing is I am not running SpamAssassin, as its speed
> is very variable and so hides the real speed of the underlying
> process.
>
> If you are suffering speed problems, please can you tell me what was
> the last fast version you used, and what was the first slow version.
> Did you downgrade again to fix the problem? Was it successful, and
> what version was again nice and fast?
>
> If you run a batch through in Debug mode does it always take the same
> time regardless of what version you are running? Maybe the problem
> only surfaces when running lots of child processes?
>
> The better I can narrow down exactly when the problem occurred, the
> better chance I have of finding it. It doesn't appear to be in the
> more robust MIME code I implemented, that doesn't make any difference.
>
> Please can you help me folks?



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Michael St. Laurent
Hartwell Corporation