Re: Spam Assassin Load Balancing

2008-01-10 Thread askthelist
We're also using Linux Virtual Server for this which processed close to a billion messages for us last year. Also sounds like you need the weighted round robin feature of lvs to weight different servers accordingly which is something we do as well. On Jan 8, 2008 1:58 AM, Paolo Cravero <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Spam Assassin Load Balancing

2008-01-08 Thread Paolo Cravero
Thomas Ledbetter wrote: First of all: we're running amavisd-new, not plain spamc/spamd anymore. We used to have N servers each running its own spamd deamons, so with separate Bayes/AWL DB. I have not understood how many machines run spamc and how many spamd. With a rounb robin policy on a ha

Re: Spam Assassin Load Balancing

2008-01-08 Thread Per Jessen
Thomas Ledbetter wrote: > With a rounb robin policy on a hardware load balancer, once the > connection is routed to a specific 'worker bee', if that machine times > out, the request will fail, and the mail wont get scanned. However, > more intelligent hardware load balancing setups can monitor th

Spam Assassin Load Balancing

2008-01-07 Thread Thomas Ledbetter
I've got a few questions for everyone concerning load balancing Spam Assassin. I've currently got a 10 node spam assassin cluster, and have been using round-robin DNS to load balance across them, but Im wondering what other people recommend? The benefit of DNS seems to be that spamc will try