mailscanner system requirements???

[David Vosburgh]

We've got a Sun 220R with 2x450Mhz processors and 1GB RAM running
sendmail, MailScanner, SpamAssassin, and Sophos.  We normally average
about 25k messages per day, and the load average is generally between
one and three.  During the Sobig outbreak, those numbers jumped up to
about 30-40k messages per day, and the load average was between about
three and seven.  The increased load didn't seem to affect the delay
time though, as we were seeing values in the four to ten second range on
average.

We don't have anything very fancy set up for sendmail.  We do use
spamhaus  for RBL's, and the access_db to whitelist/blacklist relays.
 Same with MailScanner.  Other than some custom rules in the
spam.assassin.prefs.conf, it's pretty much plain vanilla.

Dave

Rafael Angarita wrote:

>     Does somebody  has any information  about  baselines under Solaris
> (sparc)?
>     I would like to get some additional info:
>     - Number of emails per day
>     - Delay for each email after queued.
>     - Avg CPU load
>     - Hints about sendmail config (for example RefuseLA, DelayLA,
> MaxDaemonChildren)
>     - Example config files for SpamAssassin and MailScanner to get
> this metrics
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Kearney, Rob wrote:
>
>> Interestingly enough, we tested MailScanner using the LVM clustering
>> with great results, using 3 desktop Dell P2 400Mhz Machines with 32MB
>> ram.  We were only running MailScanner with SpamAssassin with no
>> virus scanning.
>>
>>
>> Currently we have CompaqDL360g2 1.4GHz with 768Mb RAM running RedHat
>> 8.0, we process about 50k daily(pretty constant load) emails with
>> Sendmail/MailScanner/SpamAssassin, no anti-virus in MS.  We average
>> about 13% CPU with Compaq Insight Manager and Trend Server Protect
>> running in addition with real-time mySQL logging in MailScanner.
>>
>>
>> -rob
>>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: Jason Burzenski [mailto:jburzenski at AMERICANHM.COM]
>>     Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:45 PM
>>     To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>     Subject: Re: mailscanner system requirements???
>>
>>     I am interested in hearing more about load / resource
>>     comparisons.  It would be nice to have a few rough baselines
>>     established.  Ie.
>>
>>     10,000 msgs / day = 256MB ram, 800MHz Proc
>>     20,000 msgs / day = 512MB ram, 1.4Ghz
>>     Etc...
>>
>>     It should also be mentioned that MailScanner works very well load
>>     balanced using multiple equal preference MX records.
>>
>>     I am currently running a cluster of 2 load balanced (DNS only)
>>     Compaq DL360s (2.5 GB RAM, RAID1 36GB SCSI drives, dual 2.4GHz
>>     Xeon procs).  Completely overkill for the 30K msgs /day I process
>>     but Im working on getting some additional domains on there which
>>     will probably triple the load.  So even then it will be
>>     overkill.  But that's what you get when you ask a windows shop
>>     for 'adequate hardware.' ;)
>>
>>     My config includes virus scanning and even through the sobig days
>>     (40K+ sobig msgs / day) the cpu avg never exceeded 5%.
>>
>>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: Wild Child [mailto:child37 at YAHOO.COM]
>>     Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:08 PM
>>     To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>     Subject: mailscanner system requirements???
>>
>>
>>     is there any system requirement[s](both hardware and software)
>>     for installing mailscanner program??? is there any different
>>     requirement[s] if im using redhat???
>>
>
>--
>
>Rafael Angarita
>
>
>
>

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Dave Vosburgh
Sr. Unix System Administrator
Dallas Semiconductor
vosburgh at dalsemi.com  972-371-4418