batch processing tmes

Tue Jun 24 01:24:11 IST 2008

I think he was referring to having your MTA handle the RBL lookups and
turn RBL Lookups off in both Spamassassin and MailScanner. This reduces
system load in a few different ways. 

Also, here are some tips on getting better performance:
http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Dave
Filchak
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:34 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: RE: batch processing tmes

Martin,

We are only using zen.spamhaus.org. Should I be using something else?

Dave

Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> Dave
>
> Look at what scores you are getting for the 1-3 seconds runs. I
suggesrt you'll find they are using MailScanner's spamassassin cache.
>
> For the longer messages I suggest they are doing a lot of RBL lookups.
You have turned off all the RBL'S you don't want in Spamassassin haven't
you?
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
>> Of Dave Filchak
>> Sent: 23 June 2008 00:03
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> Subject: batch processing tmes
>>
>> OK .. I think I have my configuration straightened out and am
>> not seeing errors in spamassassin -d --lint or sa-update -D.
>> However, what I am seeing is batch processing times all over
>> the map ... sometimes 1 - 3 seconds and then often times up
>> as high as 25 -30 seconds. Can anyone shed some light as to
>> what might be causing these long processing times.
>> These are happening with batches of only two or three messages.
>>
>> Again, here is my configuration:
>>
>> This is CentOS release 4.1 (Final)
>> This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
>>
>> This is MailScanner version 4.70.6
>> Module versions are:
>> 1.00    AnyDBM_File
>> 1.20    Archive::Zip
>> 0.22    bignum
>> 1.03    Carp
>> 1.41    Compress::Zlib
>> 1.119     Convert::BinHex
>> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
>> 2.121    Data::Dumper
>> 2.27    Date::Parse
>> 1.00    DirHandle
>> 1.05    Fcntl
>> 2.73    File::Basename
>> 2.08    File::Copy
>> 2.01    FileHandle
>> 1.06    File::Path
>> 0.19    File::Temp
>> 0.90    Filesys::Df
>> 1.35    HTML::Entities
>> 3.56    HTML::Parser
>> 2.37    HTML::TokeParser
>> 1.23    IO
>> 1.14    IO::File
>> 1.13    IO::Pipe
>> 2.02    Mail::Header
>> 1.87    Math::BigInt
>> 0.20    Math::BigRat
>> 3.05    MIME::Base64
>> 5.425    MIME::Decoder
>> 5.425    MIME::Decoder::UU
>> 5.425    MIME::Head
>> 5.425    MIME::Parser
>> 3.03    MIME::QuotedPrint
>> 5.425    MIME::Tools
>> 0.11    Net::CIDR
>> 1.25    Net::IP
>> 0.16    OLE::Storage_Lite
>> 1.04    Pod::Escapes
>> 3.05    Pod::Simple
>> 1.08    POSIX
>> 1.19    Scalar::Util
>> 1.77    Socket
>> 2.13    Storable
>> 1.4    Sys::Hostname::Long
>> 0.18    Sys::Syslog
>> 1.26    Test::Pod
>> 0.7    Test::Simple
>> 1.9707    Time::HiRes
>> 1.02    Time::localtime
>>
>> Optional module versions are:
>> 1.32    Archive::Tar
>> 0.22    bignum
>> 1.82    Business::ISBN
>> 1.10    Business::ISBN::Data
>> 1.08    Data::Dump
>> 1.814    DB_File
>> 1.13    DBD::SQLite
>> 1.58    DBI
>> 1.15    Digest
>> 1.01    Digest::HMAC
>> 2.36    Digest::MD5
>> 2.11    Digest::SHA1
>> 1.00    Encode::Detect
>> 0.17008    Error
>> 0.19    ExtUtils::CBuilder
>> 2.18    ExtUtils::ParseXS
>> 2.36    Getopt::Long
>> 0.44    Inline
>> 1.08    IO::String
>> 1.04    IO::Zlib
>> 2.21    IP::Country
>> 0.22    Mail::ClamAV
>> 3.002005    Mail::SpamAssassin
>> v2.004    Mail::SPF
>> 1.999001    Mail::SPF::Query
>> 0.2808    Module::Build
>> 0.20    Net::CIDR::Lite
>> 0.63    Net::DNS
>> 0.002.2    Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
>> missing    Net::LDAP
>>  4.004    NetAddr::IP
>> 1.94    Parse::RecDescent
>> missing    SAVI
>> 2.64    Test::Harness
>> 0.95    Test::Manifest
>> 1.95    Text::Balanced
>> 1.35    URI
>> 0.7203    version
>> 0.65    YAML
>>
>> Dave
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