I have a humungous filter file, with lots of message_body checking (and
I've upped message_body_visible to 5K). It's running on a Pentium 90 with
16M ram on RH6.2 . Couple of hundred emails an hour easily. Runs without
problems.
At 04:10 PM 10/31/00 +0000, Yann Golanski wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:04:07AM -0500, Philip_Khuu@??? wrote:
>> I plan to implement "filter file" for some mail users of a particular
domain (ex.
>> anyone@???). Before implementing this,
>> I really concern the performance impact on my exim server. Can someone
tell me how
>> big an impact is? Assume that users
>> only send 10 messages out in very hour.
>> Thank you.
>
>Depends, the only thing that takes time in filters is to look through
>the body of the message. The header generally fits quiet well in RAM and
>is fast access. But you can limite that with message_body_visible
>anyway.
>
>If you have something like 10 message per hour per user and have only
>1000 odd users. Then there will be no issues in running filters. If you
>have 3 million users then, do you really trust them to run filters? ;>
>
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