<div dir="ltr"><div>I do quite a few things for processing speed. One of the important ones is to create a ramdisk where you unpack your mail for scanning. My recipe is in the following document. It has been updated over the years since I created it in 2007.<br>
</div><br><a href="http://leap-cf.org/presentations/MailScanner/MailScanner.odt">http://leap-cf.org/presentations/MailScanner/MailScanner.odt</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Alex Neuman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@vidadigital.com.pa" target="_blank">alex@vidadigital.com.pa</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">An OT recommendation: stick with RH or CentOS instead of Fedora. While<br>
Fedora's "bleeding edge" approach works great on the desktop, CentOS<br>
might be a better fit since it uses older, more stable (but with<br>
security patched backported) components; of course, YMMV.<br>
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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Martin Hepworth <<a href="mailto:maxsec@gmail.com">maxsec@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> local caching DNS server<br>
> only run a couple of RBL's (no need to run lots)<br>
> drop unknown recipients on the incoming MTA<br>
><br>
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> Martin Hepworth, CISSP<br>
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> On 1 May 2013 15:31, Arjan Melein <<a href="mailto:Amelein@dantumadiel.eu">Amelein@dantumadiel.eu</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> We're currently getting flooded by spam and every so often our mailscanner<br>
>> is having trouble seems to have trouble keeping up causing our inbound queue<br>
>> to hit 3000+ messages and I am trying to figure out where the processing<br>
>> time is going.<br>
>> I am getting the impression *something* is causing a delay, I am unsure as<br>
>> to what but I'm thinking in the way of RBL's or DNS...<br>
>><br>
>> The server is a quadcore with 20 MS threads and it can churn through 10-30<br>
>> average mails per second depending on their size so either e-mails are being<br>
>> delivered faster then they can be scanned or there is indeed a delay<br>
>> somewhere.<br>
>><br>
>> Its a 'new' install (few months old) on FC18. I've seen it clear the 3000<br>
>> message queue in 5 - 10 minutes after manually stopping and starting<br>
>> mailscanner.<br>
>><br>
>> Any ideas anyone ?<br>
>><br>
>> -<br>
>> Arjan<br>
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