Hi,

Since there have been some Debian related posts, I thought I'd share an issue that's been nagging me this week.

I'm running Debian stable with Qmail + Qmail-Scanner + ClamAV + SA.  I've actually posted this issue on the SA (SpamAssassin) and QS (Qmail-Scanner) lists but haven't received any helpful replies.  I'm hoping maybe some Debian gurus can shed some light on this...

Recently I did an apt-get upgrade/update which pulled a new version of perl and perl modules down, as it always seemes to.  I am not sure if this is where my issue began, but it seems like since that happened it's taking anywhere from 1-10 (10!) minutes to scan email messages using qmail-scanner.  Yeah I know QS and SA are resource hogs, but this is a dual PIV Xeon box with 1GB of memory and it's not exactly high traffic.  My PIII SuSE box is blowing this thing away in this regard.  15 seconds seems normal there.

Research into this issue shows that the SA spamd daemon scans a message in about 1-3 seconds, but then spamc sits and sits for minutes.  If I run spamc with the -c flag (which doesn't generate the verbose report) then it's just as quick as spamd.  But I like having the report so I can see why false positives/negatives occured and act accordingly.

Any thoughts?  Should I be posting to a Debian list?

Josh

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