See<div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips</a></div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin</a></div><div><br></div><div>Dropping unknown recipients and having a local caching nameserver are generally the first things to sort, then look at the number of children and batch size...</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- <br>Martin Hepworth<br>Oxford, UK<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/30 Mail Admin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailadmin@midland-ics.ie">mailadmin@midland-ics.ie</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Hi All,</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Recently I am finding that the amount of
incoming mail through my MailScanner Server is really slowing down
things. There is a heavy load now since I took on a domain that seems to
me well spammed. Yesterdays processing processed 22,000 emails @88% Spam
approx.</span></p>
<p>Server Spec POWEREDGE 1850 XEON 2.8GHZ/2MB 800FSB – WITH
2 GIG RAM and RAID 1 Configuration on two Disks RPM 10K… Its
Running Fedora Core 5, Send Mail 8.13.8-1.fc5 with MailScanner 4.69.7-1 with
SA, Razor, DCC., MailWatch V1</p>
<p>Its working very well blocking spam, but only in the last
couple of days its got really slow. </p>
<p>Any ideas on how to reduce the load on this server>? By
blocking mail at the MTA before it hits MS? OR Tweaking my processes?</p>
<p>What do the Experts think on the Server Spec, for the amount
of traffic?</p>
<p>I’d appreciate any help</p>
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<p>Regards</p>
<p>Kevin</p>
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