MailScanner and RHEL 3

[Trever Furnish]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Conn [mailto:cconn at ABACOM.COM]
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:06 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner and RHEL 3
>
> We have several RHEL3 systems running MailScanner, SpamAssassin and
> Clamav and none of those systems have even _touched_ the
> swap.  Some of
> these systems handle up to 200,000 messages per day, sometimes more
> depending on the usual spam load =)  Load averages are consistently
> below 0.5 and hover around 0.2, and these systems are configured with
> 2GB of RAM.
>
> We have stuck to RH kernels, the only thing we may have done
> differently
> is rebuild all of the RPMs for the various utilities (SpamAssassin and
> clamav in particular) using rpmbuild instead of installing
> the pre-built
> rpms.  The rest is RedHat stock.

Hmmm...  Much lower load here - not using any antivirus stuff, handling only
about 45,000 messages per day (although our messages tend to be much larger
than typical sites').  Not using an RPM at all for spamassassin, compiled
from source tarball.  But we still have an issue with swapping if I turn on
swap.

I have noticed that the spf-milter perl script seems to leak memory, so I
already restart it frequently - otherwise it eventually consumes all the
memory.  But I'm pretty sure that was never the only cause of this issue.

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