EPA Processing Overhead

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Use of the EPA Mail Clerk and Window Clerk software may impose some amount of additional e-mail processing overhead at the e-mail server host system .  
 
In evaluating the cost of that overhead, the following considerations apply:  
 
1.   Comparison of EPAmail processing overhead to current local and/or remote 'spam' detection overhead.  
 

2.

Processing overhead associated with an e-mail expressed as a percentage of available CPU capacity continually declines as CPU speeds increase.

 

3.

Processing overhead associated with an e-mail expressed as a percentage of the mail's transmission time continually declines as CPU speeds increase.

4.

Increases in CPU speed occur frequently and result in lower cost per processing cycle.

5.

Automated processes that reduce required human effort and time have measurable cost benefits.

6. Reducing automation infrastructure costs magnifies the cost benefits of reduced human workloads.

As a consequence of the above, processing efficiency can be a secondary objective when assessing alternate EPA process development and deployment plans.