I have found spamd and spamc to be quite effective and fairly low load with a high volume.
I scan over 2 million messages a month on each of 4 mail servers with almost 30 being marked as spam. The machines I have are Dual xeon 1.8GHZ boxes with a GIG of RAM each. Mark Quoting gagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We had performance problems using spamassassin on our mail > machine. Mostly because it was a windows box calling a perl > script which called spamassassin. > > I setup a linux box and use spamd/spamc on it. I've gone > from well over a minute to process a single email to an > average of about 1/10th of a second by doing it this way. > > Both the mail server and linux box have the same hardware, > 1.5 GHz with 1.5 GB of RAM. The primary diffrences being > that spamd/spamc are doing the work load and that they doit > on a diffrent machine dedicated to it. > > The cost was only the hardware. > > ----- Original Message Follows ----- > > 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 > > =========================== > Kevin W. Gagel > > -------------------------------- > The College of New Caledonia > Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca > -------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
