Speeding up Spam Assassin

jim ruxton cinetron-uEvt2TsIf2EsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 6 04:05:57 UTC 2004


Still not getting anything in /var/tmp but here is some output from
/var/maillog . My machine is a P3 1 GHz machine with 512 M ram. Are the
following speeds normal..
Jim

7.0.0.1] at port 32793
Aug  5 23:29:03 localhost spamd[3874]: info: setuid to jim succeeded
Aug  5 23:29:04 localhost spamd[3874]: checking message
<BAY4-DAV26nOkrx8BiC0000 0f00-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> for jim:500.
Aug  5 23:29:10 localhost spamd[3874]: clean message (-0.1/5.0) for
jim:500 in 6 .7 seconds, 22980 bytes.
Aug  5 23:29:15 localhost spamd[3572]: connection from
localhost.localdomain [12 7.0.0.1] at port 32794
Aug  5 23:29:15 localhost spamd[3878]: info: setuid to jim succeeded
Aug  5 23:29:15 localhost spamd[3878]: checking message
<110001c47b54$c78dbdf9$2 ebd3db0-evp3iDK26250Q49UN2FMpg at public.gmane.org> for jim:500.
Aug  5 23:29:24 localhost spamd[3878]: clean message (4.4/5.0) for
jim:500 in 9. 0 seconds, 5185 bytes.
Aug  5 23:29:32 localhost spamd[3572]: connection from
localhost.localdomain [12 7.0.0.1] at port 32795
Aug  5 23:29:32 localhost spamd[3882]: info: setuid to jim succeeded
Aug  5 23:29:32 localhost spamd[3882]: checking message
<BAY4-DAV28RhQdOgl4r0000 0f27-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> for jim:500.
Aug  5 23:29:40 localhost spamd[3882]: clean message (-0.3/5.0) for
jim:500 in 7 .7 seconds, 6935 bytes.
Aug  5 23:29:50 localhost spamd[3572]: connection from
localhost.localdomain [12 7.0.0.1] at port 32796
Aug  5 23:29:50 localhost spamd[3886]: info: setuid to jim succeeded
Aug  5 23:29:50 localhost spamd[3886]: checking message
<BAY4-DAV4l7PDqqgNjW0000 0f9f-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> for jim:500.
Aug  5 23:29:56 localhost spamd[3886]: clean message (0.2/5.0) for
jim:500 in 6. 6 seconds, 8012 bytes.
Aug  5 23:30:05 localhost spamd[3572]: connection from
localhost.localdomain [12 7.0.0.1] at port 32797
Aug  5 23:30:05 localhost spamd[3890]: info: setuid to jim succeeded
Aug  5 23:30:05 localhost spamd[3890]: checking message
<218278m0vvz9$kf4m0i14$0 830i6h3 at ZF954133681805> for jim:500.



On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 23:04, Terry Tanski wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:
> 
> > I just checked and spamd seems to be taking about 0.4sec to assess
> > messages as clean here.  This is a powerful box that is underloaded
> > though.  What are the specs of your mail server?
> 
> You can get SA to tell you where it is bogging down. Add the following
> to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:
> 
> timelog_path /var/tmp
> 
> and restart SA. Send a message through and then examine the SA logfile 
> in /var/tmp. I bet the rbl checks are slowing things down. If that is 
> the case, does adding the the following to 
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf speed things up?
> 
> skip_rbl_checks 1
> 
> Hope this sends your investigation in the right direction.
> 
> Terry

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