mailscanner with heavy load

[Brent Addis]

I'm running a largeish number of servers in a few locations sharing the load.

All are DL140 G2's with single Dual core 2.8 ghz Xeons and 2G of ram.

Latest Mailscanner, Latest spamassassin and a range of plugins including OCR and PDF scanning.

Currently processing around 10,000 messages (Fluctutates up an down a lot due to bussinesses behind them)

The servers generally have a load of 0.1, and take 18 - 24 seconds per batch of 10 (Queue rarely goes above this). They are really not busy, and could probably take up to 40 thousand messages a day each before more cpu and/or ram is needed.




On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:01:42 +0000, Paulo Roncon <paulo-m-roncon at ptinovacao.pt> wrote:
> Brent: thats exactly the reason why i questioned the list. I would like to
> know real world up-to-date examples of heavy use.
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> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:18:32 +1300
> From: Brent Addis <brent.addis at spit.gen.nz>
> Subject: Re: mailscanner with heavy load
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> Those examples are by now quite old (I remember seeing those at least 3
> years ago)
> 
> Does anyone have any real world examples of large scale deployments,
> using current spam types and newer plugins (ocr scanning etc) on more
> modern hardware?
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> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 14:18 +0200, Ismail OZATAY wrote:
> 
>> Paulo Roncon yazm?s,:
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > Can you please tell how many mgs/day and Mb/day do your mailscanner
> filter?
>> > I'm designing a large deployment and have some concerns in its
> capability of handling heavy loads...
>> > In my case the box will face about 2MB/s incoming and 60msg/s !!
>> > How many servers(HP G5, quadcore, 16RAM) should I install? (not using
> DCC, Razor, Pyzor.)
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Paulo,
>> > Portugal
>> >
>>
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