Released 4.50.8 --- Re: Time::HiRes for MessageBatch timing

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Julian,
   Thank you, thank you.  I'll roll this out tomorrow morning.  I went
from 4.49.7 to 4.50.6 on Friday (the 13th!), and it has worked great!
SA cache rates in the 40 to 50% range.  The system load ("sar" output)
is down since the upgrade.  This is like a hardware upgrade for us.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:12:30 +0000
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Released 4.50.8 --- Re: Time::HiRes for MessageBatch timing
> 
> Now done. At the end of the batch, the wall-clock time taken to process that 
> batch is logged.
>
> This is in 4.50.8, which I have just released.
>
> This version has added lots of command-line options that you can use to do 
> things like
>   - Check your configuration for errors (--lint)
>   - Switch on "Debug = yes" (--debug)
>   - Calculate the value of a configuration option,
>     given a set of message values,
>     to provide a ruleset checker and
>     Custom Function checker (several options)
>   - Display command line usage (--help)
>
> Don't forget that you can easily change the amount of logs generated by 
> MailScanner by editing /etc/syslog.conf and changing the "mail" log 
> priorities that are logged in /var/log/maillog. And if you don't want to do 
> that, then change MailScanner.conf to log to "local0" instead of "mail" and 
> separate it out into its own log channel completely.
>
>
> Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> if/when you do it, you could do it like spamassassin does - uses 
>> Time::HiRes
>> only when it is available. From SA INSTALL:
>>
>>   - Time::HiRes (from CPAN)
>>
>>     If this module is installed, the processing times are logged/reported
>>     more precisely.
>> 
>> Nerijus
>> 
>> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 10:03:00 +0000 Julian Field 
>> <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>> This just didn't happen as I haven't had the time to add a whole new  Perl 
>>> module to the MailScanner distribution.
>>> 
>>> On 4 Nov 2005, at 16:27, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>> Julian,
>>>> 
>>>> Per my recent request for batch timing in the logs, please
>>>> look at my suggested changes for MessageBatch.pm (attached,
>>>> against 4.47.4).  My changes have NOT been tested at all, so I  don't 
>>>> know if this will work.  The changes:
>>>> 
>>>> * added Time::HiRes for timing the start and end timing on
>>>>   a batch of messages.
>>>> 
>>>> * changed output of information in EndBatch from integer
>>>>   to float
>>>> 
>>>> * Added a "Batch Completed in x.x seconds" syslog, even if
>>>>   "Log Speed" is not turned on in the config file.
>>>> 
>>>> Please see if my idea makes sense.  Since HighRes is required
>>>> for SpamAssassin, why not use it here too to give better info?
>>>> 
>>>> Jeff Earickson
>>>> Colby College
>>>> 
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