Version Performance

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Aug 1 15:58:06 IST 2005


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Also, it's worth trying 4.44.5 which I have just released, as it may 
have been the introduction of the facility of keeping the spam archive 
clean that was causing the performance hit.

Leonardo Helman wrote:

>yes, I know you changed a lot of code. same for the SA people.                  
>thanks for answering                                                            
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>I didn't have the time (yet) to see if this performance change                  
>was on the SA or the MS side.                                                   
>I did a little test on the SA alone (spamassassin executable)                   
>and got no useful results. I have to give this matter a litle                   
>more time, but I'm taking off a few days.                                       
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>I'll post the results when I come back. (maybe 3.1.0 directly?)                 
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>Thank you very much                                                             
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>Saludos                                                                         
>--  
>Leonardo Helman
>Pert Consultores
>Argentina
>
>On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 01:27:46PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
>  
>
>>What would be really helpful would be if you could try some intervening 
>>versions as well, and see exactly what version change caused the 
>>slow-down. A lot of code changed between 4.37 and 4.44.
>>
>>Leonardo Helman wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>this is frustrating
>>>
>>>DOESN'T MATTER THE HARDWARE.
>>>
>>>I have made a SOFTWARE upgrade, WITHOUT any change
>>>to the hardware or hardware parameters.
>>>
>>>Only software.
>>>
>>>MS4-37.1 -> MS 4.44.1 
>>>SA3.02 -> SA3.04
>>>
>>>And I MEASURED a drop in the performance something like
>>>more or less  10% (email processed on a certain time)
>>>
>>>So (I think) it's a simple cuestion about anyone
>>>measuring performance before/after upgrading.  
>>>
>>>Do any of you measure top quantity of mails per second processed?
>>>Something like "Upgraded, didn't change the hardware and get x% more/less"
>>>
>>>Saludos
>>>
>>>--
>>>Leonardo Helman
>>>Pert Consultores
>>>Argentina
>>>
>>>On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 10:03:04PM +0200, Koen Teugels wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>> On what hardware are you running this??
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Ugo Bellavance <ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM>
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>>>> Re: Version Performance
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>>>> Leonardo Helman wrote:
>>>> > Hi I have been seen a small drop in performance
>>>> > between MS4-37.7/SA-3.02 to MS-4.44-1/SA-3.04
>>>> >
>>>> > Under very heavy load we had been procesing about  15500 mails
>>>> > per hour, but with the new setup that number gets only to 13400
>>>> >
>>>> > There where no changes at MTA, or the machine.
>>>> > I only change MS+SA+some perl modules
>>>> > Compress-Zlib, ExtUtils-MakeMaker File-Spec File-Temp IO-stringy
>>>> > MailTools MIME-Base64 Storable Time-HiRes
>>>> >
>>>> > All the surbls/rbls are the same.
>>>> >
>>>> > The other rules are all the same but the default ones.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm triyng to see where the problem is. (modules? SA? MS?)
>>>> Please start here:
>>>> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:test_troublesho
>>>> ot:performance
>>>> and here
>>>> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips
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