SpamAssassin seems slow to process

divemasterza

• May 10, 2019 08:50

Pretty much a vanilla configuration Centos server, really low loads. On average a Spamassassin scan takes about 9s. May 10 15:37:17 xxxxxx spamd[79439]: spamd: clean message (0.1/5.0) for xxxxxx:1000 in 8.7 seconds, 24233 bytes. May 10 15:37:50 xxxxxx spamd[79439]: spamd: clean message (-0.1/5.0) for xxxxxx:1013 in 9.0 seconds, 26774 bytes. May 10 15:38:16 xxxxxx spamd[79439]: spamd: clean message (-0.2/5.0) for xxxxxx:1013 in 9.8 seconds, 84797 bytes.
Is this normal, or is this too slow? sorry if it seems like a noob question, but I find 9s per message a bit sluggish :)

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  LucasRolff

  • May 10, 2019 15:58

  Depends a bit on the target domain as well, the content of the email. I have some scans that take 0.2 seconds, and some that take 7 seconds. My average is 1.55 seconds. cat /var/log/maillog |grep "spamd: clean message" | grep -v "cpaneleximscanner" | awk '{ sum += $13; n++ } END { if (n > 0) print sum / n; }' 1.55725
  

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  cPanelLauren

  • May 10, 2019 17:06

  @LucasRolff is correct, it really is dependent on the contents of the mail as well as the domain. For instance if we use his command and look at my average: cat /var/log/maillog |grep "spamd: clean message" | grep -v "cpaneleximscanner" | awk '{ sum += $13; n++ } END { if (n > 0) print sum / n; }' 8.11667
  My average is pretty high as well though I don't send much mail from this test server.

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  LucasRolff

  • May 10, 2019 17:17

  My average is pretty high as well though I don't send much mail from this test server.

  
  Why not? Can sell a lot of shoes on a test server!

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  divemasterza

  • May 11, 2019 05:47

  Thank you all :)

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