MailScanner load

[Steve Campbell]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Neuman van der Hans" <alex at nkpanama.com>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: MailScanner load


> You *do* know that MailScanner causes swap, don't you? ;-)

When did this start happening????????

Steve

> 
> Rob Poe wrote:
>> 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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