[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote:

> On any system with a lot of rule sets SA represents about 90% of the total
> message prosessing time.  C vs perl makes a difference on that part.

Yes, but I fail to see how spamd helps -- it still must, ultimately,
call into the exact same Perl API as any other SA user.

> Trust me - I used a lot of time checks to make sure it was worth it.  spamd
> made a big difference over embedded perl, not to mention the differeence in
> ram used.

I would love to see how you measured that and under what conditions.  It's
something I wouldn't have predicted.

Regards,

David.