> -----Original Message----- > From: brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Running SA 1.5 / SPAMD -u nobody -d on a machine that accepts > 88k mails > per day. > > > Today was the big test, and there was a huge failure. The > issue is that I > get so many procmail processes opening that the CPU average > on the machine > pegs and the load average then causes sendmail to die. > > I get on an average 350 open procmail processes at any one > time. 'ps ax > |grep proc | wc -l" > > I need to figure out how to scale this. The machine is a > PIII with 512 > megs in Raid 5 configuration. > > The load averages used to be 0.8 and now I am up to 3.59. > What works more > effectively?
I'm going to be working on this during the following weeks. We need to process 1b [1] emails a day with this, so expect some major improvements. Some of which I won't be able to push back, but hopefully a large majority of them I will. Matt. [1] Yes, 1 billion. Currently we're pushing about 7 million, but we're ramping up very fast indeed. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
