Optimizing setup (MS, Clamav and SpamAssassin)

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Nick Nelson [mailto:snelson at VALDOSTA.EDU]
>Envoyé : 7 avril, 2004 10:03
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Optimizing setup (MS, Clamav and SpamAssassin)
>
>
>>When this happens my users complain about the delay of
>>the email since it can take hours to be processed from
>>the queue to the user's maildir.
>>
>
>Not completely on topic, but yesterday I ran some tests with my box
>which isn't completely into production yet, we hit it with roughly 4000
>pieces of mail, it cleared those 4000 pieces within 30 minutes, and the
>machine sending them was having to queue them outgoing as well, so it
>may have been able to do it faster.
>
>I have my mailscanner work area on a tmpfs, and the machine is a dual
>xeon 2.4ghz with 2GB of RAM with 2x73GB
>
>Which brings me to one more question, is there anything I can 
>do to make
>use of that second 73Gb SCSI to help performance? Right now everything
>runs off of the main SCSI drive, no doubt if I can split it between the
>two, it'll help it further.

Raid 1(striping)? 

>
>Exim won't allow the two spools (var/spool/exim and /var/spool/exim.in)
>to be on different disks. My only idea right now is to move all logging
>to the second SCSI drive.
>
>Ideas?
>
>Nick
>