MCP Efficiency?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Aug 19 12:32:49 IST 2006


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Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 18/08/06, Matt Kettler <mkettler at evi-inc.com> wrote:
>> Julian Field wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>> I am around, unfortunately, this is completely out of my domain.
>>
>> I'm very familiar with SA configuration, rule writing, and how the 
>> behavior of
>> the code affects rules and configuration. However, I have almost no 
>> familiarity
>> with the perl API and making it do various things..
>>
>> As an educated guess, I'd suggest you'd have to have to:
>>
>> 1) point rules_filename to a directory containing a single empty .cf 
>> file, or
>> perhaps just a copy of 10_misc.cf. If the directory passed doesn't 
>> exist, SA may
>> wind up defaulting back to searching for a suitable equivalent to
>> /usr/share/spamassassin.
>>
>> 2) set site_rules_filename to a directory containing just your MCP 
>> rules. Again,
>> this would have to exist or SA will probably search for a suitable 
>> equivalent to
>> /etc/mail/spamassassin.
>>
>> 3) userprefs_filename would also have to point to an empty file.
>>
> This is pretty much what is done in Jules code already ( well, the
> directories and MailScanner.conf settings come into it too:-), at
> least that is what I could deduce.
> If I've (finally!) understood the problem correctly, the problems
> arise from "contamination" between the otwo separate SA objects
> instantiated for MCP and the regular SA run, resulting in the rule
> caching mechanism getting somewhat confused. Did I finally get it
> right Jules? :-)

That's a fair summary, yes. SA compiles rules into individual perl 
functions, and the 2 pools of perl functions cross-contaminate. More or 
less.

> 
> Not sure what one could do to alleviate this, unfortunately.
> 

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