MailScanner cron job?

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> Currently running at .10, .22, .12... No MailScanner
>
> RAM 64Meg
> Processor Celeron-600mhz
> RH7.2
> Sendmail 8.11.7
>
> Based on what I just saw when checking memory usage(95% physical in use)....
> I may need to request a hardware upgrade....  I've been putting it off, but
> it looks to be needed now... especially if I intend to do any kind of mail
> filtering...

You might have enough by simply upgrading the RAM only. 64 is nothing
these days.

>
> Eric
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Raymond Dijkxhoorn
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:53 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner cron job?
>
>
> Hi!
>
> > On my system, I started using MailScanner yesterday...  Seemed to work ok
> > for a while... Server load w/o is .60 - .80...  After starting it,
> > activating the cron and restarting sendmail for queue.in and queue... load
> > jumped to 1.2-1.7... still acceptable... Only scanning for virii...
> > SpamAssassin is running through procmail for individual users with
> > spamc/spamd since system wide scanning on this machine nearly killed it in
> > the past...
>
> What kind of box, how many mails/day how much ram, what other
> applications are running. Please provide a little more info...
>
> > I run a few mail-list discussion groups here and the list management
> > software scans for virii, so they don't really need it... just the normal
> > users...
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.
>