Minimum hardware capacity for 35k e-mail scans/day

[Martin.Hepworth]

Jules

Added a bit near the optimisation section..

"http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin"

Which covers this and various other stuff I usually do too.

Also added in a link to this from the SA recommendations page.

Feel free to tidy up my English ;-)

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: 15 November 2007 18:13
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Minimum hardware capacity for 35k e-mail scans/day
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> Can someone add that to the Wiki please?
> This is worth knowing!
>
> Steve Freegard wrote:
> > Hi Edward,
> >
> > Edward Prendergast wrote:
> >> The queue seems to go up with the load. By the time the load is
> >> around 10
> >> the queue starts to climb without any sign of going down. It usually
> >> reaches
> >> the 300 mark within half an hour to an hour, but has gone up as far as
> >> 3,000. When I turn bayes off the load goes down and mail queues start
> >> becoming manageable again.
> >
> > Ok - sounds like Bayes is a factor that is causing the slowness.  Do
> > you have Bayes in MySQL or DB_File?
> >
> > If DB_File then I would suggest setting 'bayes_learn_to_journal 1' in
> > spam.assassin.prefs.conf as from experience it will reduce the lock
> > contention and speed-up batch processing considerably.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Steve.
> >
> > --
> > Steve Freegard
> > Fort Systems Ltd.
>
> Jules
>
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