MS Performance

[Martin Hepworth]

Andrea

RAM, add more RAM. 128MB is kinda low, esp a you can get 512MB ram for <
50 UK pounds (~75 Euro I guess)

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Martin


Andrea Cogliati wrote:

> Guys,
>
> we did several stress tests on our MS gateway and these are the results.
>
> System description:
>
> Single Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
> 128 MB RAM
> 40 GB single IDE disk
> MS 4.22-5
> SpamAssassin 2.55
> AV: McAfee and ClamAV
>
> With this system we are able to process about 100 messages/minute.
>
> We had to lower the number of MS children processes to 3, as with the
> default
> of 5 we got a lot of swapping (each MS process uses about 20MB of
> memory) and
> performance severely degraded. Increasing the number of messages per
> process
> to 75 also improved the overall performance a little bit.
>
> Does this make any sense? Can I improve the performances tuning the
> system
> configuration?
>
> TIA,
>
> Andrea