On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:39:10PM -0600, Jeff Engelhardt wrote: > We are looking into spamassassin, but after minimal testing it looks > like we will grind our machine to halt if we have many people using it. > Our mail server is a Sun Ultra60 with 2x450MHz CPUs and 1.2GB RAM. > That machine is server incoming mail as well as mail reading for our > POP and IMAP clients. It is also our main campus file server. We have > around 5000 accounts and deliver around 70,000 to 80,000 messages a day. > Should we be able to do it with this machine? If so, why are we seeing > problems when only 20 of us are using spamassassin?
While I would expect dual 450 CPUs to be asleep 98% of the time with that message volume, you do already have load on the machine. The added load of heavy regexp matching and DNS querries could well be pushing it over the edge. I'm not a Sparc person. I presume you are already using the spamc/spamd combination rather than firing of a new instance of the perl interpreter for each message. Break down and buy an IDE based P3 or P4 with more than a GHz, a FastEthernet adaptor, and a gig or two of RAM, with FreeBSD or Linux so you can offload the spamassassin checks. You can do that for 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
