Re: [AMaViS-user] Maximum message size to scan

ons, 31.08.2005 kl. 15.59 skrev Mark Martinec:

> > I have seen a couple of spams bypass our spamassassin scan because they
> > are larger than the 200KB default $sa_mail_body_size_limit. I'm thinking
> > about raising that limit to 512KB. If anyone have raised it, what size
> > have you configured it to? Has it done a huge impact on the load?
>
> You can try. The CPU time consumed by SA regexp rules goes linearly
> with mail size, so if you can afford it, and you are seeing larger spam
> messages, increase the limit somewhat - e.g. to the largest spam size
> that came through recently.

It's utterly unbelievable what CPU load (POSIX, PCRE and Perl alike)
regexps impose on the CPU.

--Tonni

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