Jeff Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
I don't have numbers on Sun spamd/spamc performance, but it should be pretty easy to measure. I would suggest the following: 1. Get a fast P4 (2.4 GHz or better) with 512 to 1024 MB of DDR RAM and install Linux. 2. Set up spamd on that machine. I would guess that a large part of your performance problem is probably due to not using spamd/spamc. If you run the "spamassassin" script instead of spamd/spamc, the setup cost per message is very high. 3. Either run spamc on your mail server or just move mail to the P4. If you run spamc on the mail server, make sure only your mail server can connect to the spamd machine. Your Sun server may be fast enough to avoid needing the P4, but I don't know. Ultra60 systems aren't all that fast nowadays. If you get 80,000 messages, that's an average of 1 message per second. You should be able to easily handle that rate (including peaks) running spamd/spamc on a fast machine. -- Daniel Quinlan Linux, open source, and http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ anti-spam consulting ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
