Can bogofilter run by multiprocess at the same time

[David Relson]

More & more interesting :-)  As you realize, making bogofilter
multi-threaded is a complex undertaking, hence can't be done in a short
period of time.

Here's an idea:

Use the pipe to communicate with a "proxy (spam task)" on the central
machine.  The proxy would serialize filtering requests, i.e. it would
collect the complete message, grab a semaphore, run bogofilter, release
the semaphore, return the status.

With the proxy being responsible for serializing requests, you could use
bogofilter without needing to enhance it.

Gotta go now.  It's late and I have work in the morning.

David

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:55:09 +0800
_________ wrote:

> I know. But the emails come from many machines and we don't want to
> setup a bogofilter in every machine. So we decide to setup a central
> machine a handle the spam check. And the emails must be sent through
> socket to this central machine where bogofilter is called. I tried
> using popen-pclose or system() to call bogofilter in a multi-thread
> daemon process. But the test always fail sooner or later.
> 
> 
> ___2004___10___15______11:47___David Relson_________
> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:40:47 +0800
> > _________ wrote:
> > 
> > > I want to setup a daemon to accept from socket a email buffer and
> > > check if the email bufer is a spam or not. About 30/sec emails
> > > will be checked by the daemon.
> > 
> > Unless you're on very slow hardware, bogofilter can handle 30
> > msgs/sec. Daemon mode isn't necessary for that load.
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