2500 timeouts a day! (Solved)

[Julian Field]

I wouldn't put more than a few hundred entries in a ruleset. They all have
to be searched top to bottom for every message. If you know they are going
to be complete email addresses then take a look for the Fast ruleset code
in CustomConfig.pm and implement your blacklist using that code. It will be
*much* faster.

One of these days I will write an optimiser for the configuration compiler,
which will spot this happening and automatically implement them using a
hash table. But I never seem to have quite enough time to get around to
writing that....

At 13:52 27/05/2004, you wrote:
>
>Thanks to everybody who replied. I think I got a handle on the various
>aspects of tuning MailScanner.
>
>Last night I conducted a test. I had a little over 1500 entries in the
>MailScanner blacklist file. I moved this file and created a blank
>blacklist file. As of a few minutes ago, I had received 1 timeout in the
>last 10 hours. As I was getting a timeout at least every few minutes,
>I'd say this has solved the problem.
>
>However, yesterday from the reports I run, it showed that 900 pieces of
>spam were blocked by blacklist. This is not to say that bayes or SA
>rules would not have picked these up anyway.
>
>Question. I currently have 512mb memory and a 2.4Ghz Celeron powering
>this MailScanner server. This server processes roughly 12,000 emails a
>day. What factor would is limiting the abililty for MailScanner to
>process all the entries in the blacklist? Is this a memory issue?
>
>Thanks,
>Max
>
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