On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:48:18AM -0400, Andrew wrote: > Scott Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a similar number of accounts on my mail server. I have a P4 1.5GHz > > 1G RAM Dell workstation running spamd. The box coasts most of the day and > > works hard during a spam storm. > > > > We process an average of just over 50,000 messages per day. We call > > spamc from the global procmailrc. We don't process message over 250K in > > size and our average processed message size is about 9K. Over half of > > those messages are tagged as spam with a default required_hits of 8. > > What would you consider the minimum for your setup. PII 500mz, PIII > 1gig? How much RAM?
Run with what you have and disable to CPU intensive checks as needed to allow the box to handle the load. I'm thinking of RAZOR and DCC. Run a caching name server on the box or disable DNS lookups so that processes won't stack up waiting for DNS responces. If you run spamassassin as content filter, spamproxyd, or a milter, you can probably run it less often because some messages will be to multiple recipients. Running it at the earlier stage will save you from analysing the same message multiple times. However, you will also lose the ability to have per user settings. > I know it depends on traffic, but studies of a mta that I work on shows > that it gets about 10,000 spams minimum in a week. In any front end mail > filter I realize that bigger is better. But budget restraints won't let > me run out and buy the latest P4. Like I said, I'm seeing about 25,000 spams per day. But you can't figure anything by just the spam count. You also have to process the non-spam. The Dell workstation we are using was bought from Dell's refurb site and is not expensive. It's a small footprint slim-line desktop case. It uses the stock IDE disk. We only added RAM to it. Due to the lack of disk I/O, you can have a very fast box for a very low cost. CPUs, RAM, and 100Mb ethernet adaptors are cheap. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
