Performance and stability

COMDOM Antispam is designated mainly for Internet service providers and large companies. Compared with its competitors, it is capable of processing many times more e-mails on the same hardware configuration and at the same time.

COMDOM Antispam has been designed for the requirements of ISP’s and large organizations to protect their networks from increasingly sophisticated and complex forms of spam. The software offers a combination of accuracy, reliability, and high performance that surpasses solutions currently available. Compared to competitors, COMDOM is capable of processing many times more e-mails on the same hardware configurations thanks to a high degree of optimization of detection and learning algorithms by our development team.

For example, on a 1.7 GHz Intel® Pentium M™ processor, the throughput rate for COMDOM Antispam is almost 80 Mbit, compared to 0.4 Mbit for Spam Assassin. The following figure highlights the high performance and innovative solution that COMDOM Antispam offers

COMDOM Antispam vs. Spamassasin - Messages / minute

COMDOM Antispam vs. Spamassasin - KiB / minute

 

Test configuration

SW:
COMDOM Antispam v. 1.0
Spamassasin v. 3.1.0a
Spamassasin based SMTP/LMTP proxy deamon spampd version: 2.30
Benchmark test program: Postal (http://www.coker.com.au/postal/)

HW:
CPU: Intel® Pentium® M processor 1,7 GHz with 2048 KB L2 Cache
MB: G5M100-N (Intel® 855GME Chipset) 
LAN 1: Intel 82562EM, LAN 2: 82551QM
RAM: 2x1GB DDR 400
HDD: 120GB ATA Disk Seagate ST3120026A

Stability

In addition to its performance, COMDOM Antispam has been designed to be highly stable. The software has been especially constructed to allow for automatic recovery and continuation of its activities, even in the case of an application break-down.