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Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at PROLOCATION.NET
Fri Jan 23 11:15:36 GMT 2004


Hi!

> > You should be able to process at least 2 or three times this total
> > load in one single box as you describe above...

> Any tips for optimizing?
>
> I have /var on separate disks (actually they are separate RAID1-sets),
> and /var/MailScanner/incoming on tmpfs. The only RBL I use is ORDB, and
> that is through Exim, not MS. It seems that MailScanner is the most
> CPU-hungry process, and I can't really imagine Exim eating that much
> resources.

Did you disable the per message logs within Exim? I have put online some
stuff in the FAQ about that.

You could mount the disk with noatime to save diso io.

Do you use remote syslogging ?

Bye,
Raymond.



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