mailscanner with heavy load

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 15:11:49 GMT 2009


2009/1/30 Brent Addis <brent.addis at spit.gen.nz>:
> I'm running a largeish number of servers in a few locations sharing the load.
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> All are DL140 G2's with single Dual core 2.8 ghz Xeons and 2G of ram.
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> Latest Mailscanner, Latest spamassassin and a range of plugins including OCR and PDF scanning.
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> Currently processing around 10,000 messages (Fluctutates up an down a lot due to bussinesses behind them)
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> 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.
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> 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
>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
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>> Those examples are by now quite old (I remember seeing those at least 3
>> years ago)
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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hardly 'heavy load'. I think we're talking in the 500,000 messages per
day for this.

my old 900mhz celeron used to handle 10k messages a day without any problems.

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Martin Hepworth
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