Server Loads/hardware standards

[Julian Field]

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Michael Kain wrote:
> Recently, I've gone from handling 40k messages /day to nearly 
> 30k/hour.  The change has surfaced in the last month or so.
>
> My current setup:
> Dual P3 1.13
> 1GB Ram
> FC5
>
> Mail gateway running MS/clam/SA forwards scanned mail to internal mail 
> server (when there's a problem, users hit send/receive and that 
> doesn't cause an error..thus avoiding immediate call) I've used 
> Julian's clam/sa install script (which is awesome), and read posts 
> relating to new releases before upgrading/such.
I have just upgraded it to contain ClamAV 0.88.5.
>
> With spamassassin enabled, the batch list grows and grows, was up to 
> 95k at one point.. disabling SA in MS cleared that out fairly 
> quickly.  I've wiped the SA/bayes temp files thinking bayes was 
> backing up, however, it seems that is not helping.
>
> What I would like an opinion on is this... Am I trying to do too much 
> with the hardware that I currently have?  Or do I put together a 
> bigger beefier machine?
Start by trying switching off DCC / Razor / Pyzor. Also, if you can put 
/root/.spamassassin (i.e. where you store Bayes files) on tmpfs that 
will help quite a bit.

>
> -Mike

Jules

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