[Mimedefang] Reasonable filter times

[David F. Skoll]

Tim Boyer wrote:
> Obviously, there isn't a 'one size fits all' for scan times - they can be
> all over the place.  But I'm curious if anyone has a feel for what a
> reasonable scan time would be.

> Using the '-T' switch my average filter time this month is 1113ms,
> with a standard deviation of 1900.  So the majority of my emails are handled
> within about 5 seconds.

> Is this way too long?

It sounds about right.  A fair bit of that time might be network
latency while DNS lookups are performed.

I'd consider an average scan time under about 1.5 seconds with standard
deviation under about 3 seconds to be pretty reasonable if you're doing
spam and virus scanning.

Regards,

David.