[Mimedefang] spamassassin - memory or cpuintensive

[David Hollis]

What I've noticed on a setup that is getting around 35K messages daily
is the CPU is the big hitter.  I'm using a filter that is real close to
the stock example for windows clients and I tend to be using about 512mb
(running on a UltraSparc runniing Sol 8).  The box has 2 gigs but never
comes close to using it all.  CPU on the other hand, is taking quite a
beating.  During the normal business day, I tend to run between 4 and 10
on the load average.  After hours it tends to drop quite a bit.  Another
real helper would most certainly be having the MIMEDefang spool
directory on some form of RAM disk and dump the quarantine files some
where else for further processing.

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 03:46, Ole Michaelsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Let's say I only pass messages larger than 128KB on to SpamAssassin.
> What determines how long time SA would take to process each message?
> 
> Is it CPU intensive - memory intensive, I/O intensive? Any rules of
> thumb?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Ole Michaelsen, Darmstadt, Germany
> http://www.fys.ku.dk/~omic
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