On 19-Sep-06, at 11:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I scan 1.2 million emails with qpsmtpd (using clamav, spamassassin
and
kaspersky) on a single ibm x336 with 2GB ram and two 3.0ghz xeons
(netburst based, not core 2) using Debian Sarge and a single 10K SCSI
disk. I have found that qpsmtpd-forkserver is not the best way to go
which is why we wrote qpsmtpd-prefork (you can grab it from
subversion).
I didn't mention that I had 4 Gig of RAM. Since we are looking at
setting up a failover host, soon, with similar specs to the first,
that
would be a good opportunity to check out the prefork code.
I seriously recommend you check out running under Apache. I suspect
it's the fastest way to run qpsmtpd (barring experimenting with the
poll server). It's how apache.org have been running qpsmtpd for a
long time now.
Also run with at the very least SBL+XBL and a DUL (you may need to
pay for MAPS DUL as it's professionally run unlike the SORBS DUL).
This will get your load right down by getting rid of 60% of your spam
with just a DNS lookup.
Matt.
