MailScanner and RHEL 3

[Marco Obaid]

Hi,

> You'll find that over time, your memory will be
> eaten up by buffer cache, and your MailScanner/MTA/SpamAssassin/AV processes
> will get pushed into swap.  This makes the performance horrible, because
> your processors get eaten up by I/O wait.  The only fix at this time is to
> disable swap for your server, then it runs great.

Really? I wonder if your system has enough RAM.
Anyone else running into this?
I am not experiencing the above issue. I have 5 RHEL systems processing 50k+
messages a day with no glitch. Certinly not your issue above !!!

Marco

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