spamassassin slow to process messages

[Matthew Hunt]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:08:37AM +1000, Andrew Thomson wrote:

> I've got a CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (930.32-MHz
> 686-class CPU) and I'm seeing performance like,
> 
> Jul  8 08:25:11 athomson spamd[52016]: clean message (0.4/5.0) for
> ajt:1001 in 10.2 seconds, 2132 bytes. 

Well, that's pretty bad.  I see:

Jul  7 04:05:49 wopr spamd[66708]: identified spam (8.4/5.0) for mph:501 in 4.0 seconds, 1206 bytes. 
Jul  7 04:08:18 wopr spamd[66726]: clean message (-5.3/5.0) for mph:501 in 7.1 seconds, 2553 bytes. 

This is on a Cyrix 6x86 (166 MHz 486-class CPU) with no L2 cache.  :-)

Is the machine heavily loaded with other work?  Assuming that there are
no messages between the ones you posted, it doesn't look like the machine
is overburdened by mail alone.

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