Speeding up Spam Assassin

Phillip Qin Phillip.Qin-szgMhqSEIEG+XT7JhA+gdA at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 4 21:04:44 UTC 2004


I used to use spamassassin on my debian machine. I remembered I used
SpamAssassin daemon, not spamc/spamd. It only took couple of seconds
processing the message. Try daemon intead. I now switched to DSPAM.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Coburn [mailto:michael-3aH0qR8MVRD3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org] 
Sent: August 4, 2004 5:04 PM
To: Toronto Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Speeding up Spam Assassin


On my Debian stable / qmail P2 333 with 128M of ram and approximately 50
messages per hour, the average message requires 3 - 5 seconds to process
through spamc, and sometimes as long as 70 seconds.

Is it possible that your system is underpowered, or you have a busy MTA with
multiple messages being processed by spamc concurrently?
--
michael

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 16:41, jim ruxton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Hi Jim.  Spamc/spamd uses the same ruleset as the spamassassin perl 
> > script by default.  I think this is unnecessary duplication.
> Strange thing is spamassassin does catch the odd spam that spamc 
> misses. I'm not sure why this is. Is it typical for spamc to take so 
> long to analyze a message. Sometimes it even takes up to 30 seconds. 
> jim
> >  Of course
> > spamc/spamd could be configured differently to spamassassin but that 
> > really would be unnecessary complexity in most cases.
> > 
> > > anything spamc misses. It takes about 10-15 seconds per message 
> > > sometimes for spamc to determine whether a message is spam. Any 
> > > suggestions how I can speed this up?
> > 
> > Ordinarily I'd recommend spamc/spamd over spamassassin as they are 
> > so much faster but you are already using using spamc/spamd.
> > 
> > So I'd say drop spamassaassin as a follow-up to spamc/spamd.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 	Rob
> 
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