MCP Efficiency?

[Julian Field]

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Sorry, just checked the code. I am doing that already.

The cause of the problem is that SpamAssassin does not appear to support 
the way I am trying to use it. I want 2 completely separate instances of 
SpamAssassin. One has all the normal SA rules as expected. The other one 
has no rules or dns checks or Razor or anything at all, it *only* has 
the few rules specified for MCP checking.

I can't make it do this, while still keeping all the rules compiled in 
both instances and every setup done and cached. The only thing I can 
make it do to run the way I want, is to tell it not to pre-compile all 
the rules. As a result it has to do a huge load of SA compilation for 
every message.

If Matt Kettler is around, maybe he could offer me some advice. I have 
tried asking on the SA list several times, and they don't understand why 
I would want my 2nd instance at all, so I never got any helpful answers.

David Jacobson wrote:
> Hi Guys / Julian,
>
> We've noticed some load problems using MCP.  We initially thought it had
> to do with the MCP spam.assassin.prefs using all the SA plugins...
>
> We enabled MCP on one domain on a server that's load average is 3 as we
> enable MCP the load jumps to 15.
>
> I'm concerned how this can happen as it's just scanning 1 domain out of
> 100's that does very minimal mail on the server the ruleset is to use
> MCP for one domain.  
>
> Julian, do you perhaps know of any problems with this code in terms of
> speed?  As far as I'm concerned if it's enabled for one domain with
> minimal volume it should not immediately jump the load on the server to
> 15.  I did a watch on ps and noticed the MCP check only comes once every
> like 5-10 minutes for a few seconds.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>   

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