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[Håkon Eriksen]

> 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.

Yes.

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

I tried that on a different setup, but it didn't seem to make much of a
difference. Perhaps I'll try it again and see how it works out.
 
> Do you use remote syslogging ?

Exim-logs go both on disk and to a remote server, MS logs go just to
disk.

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 Håkon Eriksen <hakon.eriksen at usit.uio.no>
 Gruppe for drift av grunntjenester (GT), SAPP, USIT