On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:57:58 +0800 Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote: > 20-40 messages per /HOUR/? Spamassassin takes <1s to filter a message > on my desktop, so presumably reasonably recent hardware should be able > to manage 20-40 per minute... On my machine SA takes just shy of 2s per message. 667Mhz Coppermine. So I'd wager ~1800 messages per hour or 43200 messages a day. Of course this machine is also running a slew of other processes at the same time (router, web, ftp, pop, imap, smtp, KDE dekstop, yadda, yadda, yadda, blah, blah, blah) so those figures might be a bit low. So, Craig says over the last week he's rejected or processed 25130 messages. Just over a half-day's work on my 6+ year old machine. To get it to the point where a machine couldn't handle his load it would have to handle less than 3600 messages a day which equates to a mail a minute. So, 2s w/PIII-667Mhz that would be 30 times slower. I'm having a hard time trying to guess what would be 30 times slower than my 667Mhz. I'm losing it in the 586 -> 486 transition. Of course RAM speeds also bog things down in there. However I'm having a hard time believing that Craig's running his mail machine on anything under a 586. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
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