Big Loads

[Matt Kettler]

Ken A wrote:
> 
> Is this a dedicated MailScanner/SA box?
> 
> Have you consulted the MAQ about performance issues? You should be able
> to run SA unless your hardware is obsolete or you've insufficient RAM.
> 
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips

Side note that's not in the optimization_tips document. If you run a large
volume site MailScanner 4.50 and up feature a spamassassin result-cache which
can help considerably with the load.


If you're running on low-end hardware, you can also gain a lot of speed in SA,
at the expense of missing more spam, by disabling:AWL, bayes, and network
checks. Without any of these, a stock SA 3.1.0 runs pretty fast and light.