Spamassassin is slow - any tips or good commercial alternative?

[Martin.Hepworth]

Charlie

2-5 seconds per batch is pretty fast. Anything under 1 minute is acceptable IMHO.

Why the concern about scan times?? Email isn't IM :-). Seriously why the concern about scan times?

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Charlie
> Sent: 16 June 2008 04:41
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Spamassassin is slow - any tips or good commercial
> alternative?
>
> By the way, my CPU is Pentium 4, 2.4GHz and there is 1GB of RAM.
> Emails are now taking 2-5 seconds to scan - is this normal
> for this configuration? We've disabled spam checking on
> emails larger than 40KB and that helped a great deal.
>
> Server's details:
>
> # free
>              total       used       free     shared
> buffers     cached
> Mem:       1028576     835056     193520          0
> 117124     264136
> -/+ buffers/cache:     453796     574780
> Swap:       996020      21148     974872
>
> # uptime
>  03:34:13 up 222 days, 45 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.12,
> 0.71, 0.43
>
> # cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal:      1028576 kB
> MemFree:        182964 kB
> Buffers:        116612 kB
> Cached:         263300 kB
> SwapCached:       3028 kB
> Active:         624508 kB
> Inactive:       175076 kB
> HighTotal:      122856 kB
> HighFree:          236 kB
> LowTotal:       905720 kB
> LowFree:        182728 kB
> SwapTotal:      996020 kB
> SwapFree:       974872 kB
> Dirty:             364 kB
> Writeback:           0 kB
> AnonPages:      419628 kB
> Mapped:          25792 kB
> Slab:            38296 kB
> PageTables:       2372 kB
> NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
> Bounce:              0 kB
> CommitLimit:   1510308 kB
> Committed_AS:   815640 kB
> VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
> VmallocUsed:      2676 kB
> VmallocChunk:   111648 kB
>
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 15
> model           : 2
> model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
> stepping        : 7
> cpu MHz         : 2405.624
> cache size      : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 2
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep
> mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid
> bogomips        : 4815.03
>
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