Please don't misunderstand it as a recommendation for less RAM: We've tested a combination of sendmail-mimedefang-spamassassin (the latter two backported from testing) on a maschine with only 64MB and a PII:
At a threshold of about 18000 mails per day out of a mixture from large mails, worms, viruses, malformed mails it came to it's limit. We allowed 3 slaves for mimedefang-multiplexor. And I think that's the point: SA without preloading such as mimedefang provides would be an overkill on heavily used machines. Only a hint where to save load. Christian -----Original Message----- From: Dale E Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 5:31 AM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: You can start saving now > 128M? My firewall has more than that. My personal firewall... A > P120....or 133...I honestly don't remember. But anyway who's bright idea > was that? You can get ahold of 256M for like $100 or less, usually less. This is a colocated machine, put together by the colo. 128M is actually plenty for handling mail for 10s of people and serving webpages - if you don't use spamassassin... It's doing fine ever with SA now that it's throttled some. Each concurrent spamc takes something like 14M of RAM. > 128M hasn't been enough for a server, especially a heavily used one, for > a loooong time, long before the Duron came out. I agree with you, that's why I said "the real solution is to add RAM" in the original post. If the machine was in the same state as me and/or belonged to me I would have done it long ago. Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Computer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cliftonlabs.com pgp key available -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
