Run MScanner in a virtualized environment.

[Ghetti, Ron]

Well I will say that it could be my impementation
Of clam, I've heard tell that it can be setup as a
Daemon and that will reduce overhead, however I've no idea how. 
At the time we went with the defaults.  
I think this brought the overhead up past the breaking point for us.

Again, I would like to re-enable it if I could find 
A good resource on how to set it up for my specifics.

Thanks

-Ron




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of
Martin.Hepworth
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 11:59 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: RE: Run MScanner in a virtualized environment.


Interesting - spamassassin tends to be heavier than virus scanning these
days.

I guess the two together could be the issue.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Ghetti, Ron
> Sent: 07 July 2008 16:37
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Run MScanner in a virtualized environment.
>
>
> Running here on vmware, it took a bit of tweaking To get it
> to keep up when we get busy.
> No virus scanning as it is handled elsewhere.
> Although, I'd like to re-enable it but av scanning just kills it.
> The network load factor is generally all the spam attempts.
> I think it's dropping about 10 - 20,000 connections a day.
>
> Here are some numbers.
>
> There were 2,110 Messages Sent from internal Users.
> There were 0 virus infected messages removed.
> There were 12,814 Total messages Recieved.
> There were 4,072 Messages Delivered.
> There were 6,981 messages marked as spam.
> There were 7,794 Messages rejected due to bad recipients.
> There were 323 Messages rejected due to bad Sender Addresses
> (Domain Not
> Found)
> There were 996 Messages rejected due to embedded-attached
> images ( image spam ) There were 4 Attempted Message Relays.
> There were 13,379 Connections Dropped.
> There were 22,505 rejected in Total.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Eduardo Casarero
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:53 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: OT: Run MScanner in a virtualized environment.
>
>
> Hi guys, i know that it's not recomendable to run MS on
> virtualized HW because of it's high cpu/io load. However, i'm
> doing some research because my boss required it.
>
> What products do you think that will work best? VMware? Xen?
> The objective is that it has to be simple and quick to
> deploy. Also will be useful in case the HW dies, so you
> quickly can have the emails flowing (may be with delay, but
> working), until HW gets repaired.
>
> We all know that installing MS servers takes a while, so
> having a pre-installed image will reduce times.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Everything will be appreciated.
>
> Eduardo.
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