On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Manvendra Bhangui <[email protected]> wrote: > The spamassasin example was at Sify. At that point we were hit by spam and > virus > specifically targeted at Sify. And the servers were just not able to cope up > with the load. One night of frantic coding and the spamassasin was replaced > by bogofilter. A program called qmail-smtpd was modified to look at the exit > code of bogofilter and discard the mail at the entry points. > bogofilter is a very fast bayesian spam filter available at > http://www.bogofilter.org > > Currently we are doing some of this stuff at my current job. Just few days > back we have got a huge performance gain by moving to sphinx - > http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ (written in C++) and we are > again going to save on servers by moving away from Lucene - > http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/ (written in Java) > > > Take a look at > > http://highscalability.com/ > > It explains the architecture of high scalable sites like youtube, flickr, > etc. I have personally gained a lot from the above site. > Thanks, will go through these tomorrow morning.
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