MailScanner load

[Julian Field]

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Steve Campbell wrote:
> 
> ----- 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????????

Like any other package, it will start to swap if you run out of RAM. It 
does not "cause" swap.

> 
> 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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