Optimizing setup (MS, Clamav and SpamAssassin)

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Nick Nelson [mailto:snelson at VALDOSTA.EDU]
>Envoyé : 7 avril, 2004 10:26
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: Optimizing setup (MS, Clamav and SpamAssassin)
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>Ugo Bellavance wrote:
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>>Raid 1(striping)?
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>I wish . Unfortunately right now this isn't an option

If it will be an option later, you should keep your 2nd hard drive empty.  You'll probably never need 73 Go of space for mailscanner.

>, I did however
>just do a quick install of BIND to get a local caching 
>nameserver going.

have a look at the maqs.  it is mostly redhat-specific, but should help.

http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/

optimization part: http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/#optimize

>Cuts the nslookups from 500ms or so to less than 3ms, should help speed
>stuff up. I've been pretty impressed with the speed already actually,
>but you can always get better ;)
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