Desperately trying to debug poor spam scanning performance

[Ben Tisdall]

Julian Field wrote:
>
>>   
> Have you done a "MailScanner --debug --debug-sa" with a couple of
> messages in the queue, so you can see exactly where the slow bits are?
> It prints out a timestamp at the start of every line of output as the
> spam checks are done by SpamAssassin, so you can see which bits take a
> long time.
> 
> Do you run a "default deny" on your outbound traffic through your
> firewall, so some tool like Razor (for example) is waiting for a timeout?
> 

Thanks Jules, I *can* see a razor timeout in the debug output.

The fw should allow it and indeed if I razor-check a message I can see
the packet exchange happening in both directions.

I'll make more tests.

Best regards,

Ben.

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