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Re: [PLUG] SpamAssassin. Go get it.
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On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Chuck Peters wrote:
> I don't think SpamAssassin is considered to be very scalable.
>
> I did a little formail test to see what kind of a load SpamAssassin would
> put on our machine and it took over 2 seconds per message. The test was
> done on a 804 MHz processor and I saw loads over 9.
>
> CCIL.org has about 850 active users users, of those 650 use mail here and
> another 90 forward it. The machine running all this mail is a 166 MHz, it
> would be very noticable if we enabled SpamAssassin for everyone. After we
> migrate to Debian woody and a faster box we shouldn't set it up as the
> default for all users.
>
> Chuck
>
You should be using spamd/spamc the daemon client spamassassin modules. It
is much more efficient. Read the docs on use on servers etc.
Doug
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