From: "J. Scott Amort" <jsamort@xxxxxxx> > Hi All, > > After reading through a few threads on Spam Assassin, and given a recent > increase in the amount of spam arriving in my inbox, I thought I would > give it a whirl. It is, however, terribly slow. I belong to several > mailing lists, and receive anywhere from 300-500 emails a day. It seems > to take Spam Assassin 20-30 seconds or so to process each email! Is > this usual? I have tried both the spamassassin -e and spamc approaches > to creating an evolution filter, but it made no difference in speed > either way. Any tips for speeding things up? You are using a slow processor, too. It takes a little under 30 seconds to scan, via "spamassassin -t", an average email on the 133MHz Pentium with 256 megs of ram I use here for the job. I am told LOTS of ram helps the situation materially. A test via spamc/spamd typically takes about 7 seconds. So that is the way I have the machine configured. > Cheers, > > Scott > > PS I set things up by following the instructions at: > > http://www.atlantawebhost.com/articles/evolution_spamassassin.php There is something wrong with setting it up with a real configuration for sendmail or postfix? The Evolution thing looks like it tries to sidestep the fetchmail->procmail->spamassassin process. It leads to a massive slowdown that way due to the HUGE overhead of repeatedly starting the perl interpreter. (You might be able to adapt the spamc/spamd approach to the evolution trick with a little creative thinking, though.) {^_^}
