On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 10:08:27PM -0700, joe wrote: > > All: > > > > I have a FC2 box running the lastest updates. > > > > I'm checking out spamc and I go to test it like so: > > ------------------------------------- > > [root@luke spamassassin]# time spamc -c < > /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.63/sample-nonspam.txt > 0.1/5.0 > > real 0m40.267s > user 0m0.001s > sys 0m0.005s > [root@luke spamassassin]# time spamc -c < > /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-2.63/sample-spam.txt > 1001.4/5.0 > > real 0m20.127s > user 0m0.002s > sys 0m0.004s > [root@luke spamassassin]# ps -fade | grep spam > root 2136 1 0 Sep08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -m5 > -H > ------------------------------------ [ snip ] Joe, it's actually how you have spamd running that is taking all the time. If you run spamd in local mode it will skip DNS and other network tests and work a lot faster. You just have to start spamd with the flag -L as such /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -m5 -L -- Gunnar vS Kramm San Francisco, CA http://www.thekramms.com gpg public key: http://thekramms.com/keys/gkramm.gpg