How to understand spamassasin speed

[Glenn Steen]

On 04/02/2008, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/02/2008, donald.dawson at bakerbotts.com
> <donald.dawson at bakerbotts.com> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> > > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> > > Of Marcello Anderlini
> > > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 5:05 AM
> > > To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> > > Subject: How to understand spamassasin speed
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello everybody,
> > > Is there any way to test the speed of single spamassassin
> > > test so to know
> > > which is slowing my system ?
> > >
> > > I've done spamassassin -D --lint 2>/tmp/speed.txt but there
> > > is now way to
> > > understand how may time each process takes long ?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help and sorry for my worst English
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Marcello
> > >
> > One of our new mail servers had been blocked by spamhaus and that was
> > causing additional delays.
> >
> > I added the following to the spamassassin prefs file on our MX server
> > and the processing time per message improved by 3 seconds.  Someone with
> > more experience in this mail list can verify if this is correct, or too
> > extensive in dropping RBL lookups.
> >
> > # 11/22/07 DLD - from ms listsever - stops spamhaus lookups
> > score __RCVD_IN_ZEN 0.0
> > score RCVD_IN_SBL 0.0
> > score RCVD_IN_XBL 0.0
> > score RCVD_IN_PBL 0.0
> > score URIBL_SBL 0.0
> >
> > # 11/26/07 DLD Timeouts using ms debug
> > score URIBL_RHS_DOB 0.0
> > score DNS_FROM_DOB 0.0
> >
> > I ran:
> >
> > # MailScanner --debug --debug-sa 2>&1 | awk '{printf"%s %s\n",
> > strftime("%T"), $0}' | tee /tmp/mstest.log
> >
> Granularity of seconds is a bit limited.... Use strftime("&t:%N") for
> subsecond timings.
> Granted, seconds will likely be enough to see any blatant problems.
> Also, since we're debugging SA, it'd be better to just use
> spamassassin -D -t < /path/to/message file | awk '{printf"%s
> %s\n",strftime("%T:%N"), $0}' | tee /tmp/mstest.log
> ... IMO:)
What a crock of BS... Please disregard.... I'm obviously still not
recovered from last weeks illness. Sigh.
Sorry.
-- 
-- Glenn
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