MailScanner load

[Jeremy Blonde]

The box reports that 500 k of swap is being used.  I rarely have less
than 200,000 k free of RAM with the average being 300,000 k.

Jeremy Blonde
Instructional Technology - Server Support
Grant Joint Union School District


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Poe [mailto:rpoe at plattesheriff.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:39 AM
To: Jeremy Blonde; MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: MailScanner load

What's your swap utilization?  1gig of ram using tempfs and MailScanner
sounds like too little ram...



>>> "Jeremy Blonde" <JeremyBlonde at grant.k12.ca.us> 8/15/2006 1:26 PM
>>>
I've been wanting to use Bayes for our mailscanner system, but I'm
wondering now if the overhead is worth it.  We have a new mailscanner
box running with Postfix (under Gentoo Linux) and it works pretty well,
we're filtering between 75-80% of our mail as spam.  The box however, is
hammered, it's running around 5-6 with spikes to 8-9.  I've just turned
off bayes and I'll see how the load is once it's processed all the back
logged messages.  We're averaging about 15,000-20,000 messages a day
(probably more once the school year starts).  Mailscanner is running on
an HP DL320, hyper-threaded proc, 1 GB of RAM, and raid 1 drives.

Is that normal for using bayes with mailscanner or do I need to tweak
some things?

(I'm already using tmpfs for a little bit of a speed up).

Jeremy Blonde
Instructional Technology - Server Support Grant Joint Union School
District
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