----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter McGarvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:46 AM Subject: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin on a high load mail system
> Hi all. > > I'm currently running SA spamd with Exim and exiscan_acl. Everything is > fine, and I'm more than happy. However, my system doesn't handle that > much mail. Based on my positive experiences, I'm investigating > installing SA on an system which handles >10K messages a day. > > I was wondering if anyone has run SA on a similarly loaded system. > > And, if so, what's the performance like. > > Several people have mentioned to me that, being perl based, SA won't > scale particularly well. I've never had problems scaling perl apps in > the past, so I didn't worry - until others started sticking their oar > in. So any evidence/anecdotes to put my mind at ease would be greatly > appreciated. > > > -- > TTFN, FNORD > > Peter McGarvey > Freelance FreeBSD Hacker > (will work for bandwidth) > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk Peter we are running spamd with Exim - currently in pre-trial stage but effectively with full load as all messages are going through the filters (but with spam headers removed). Currently processing between 2.5-3 million incoming mails a day and it's coping well - although concentrated spam attacks can give us some grief. Briefly, our setup is 6 incoming Exim SMTP servers, 4 secondary SMTP servers, and 6 SpamAssassin servers. This is soon to be extended by 3 more Exim boxes. The Exim boxes are mostly SUN E450/E420s with a few IBM X345's running Linux. The SA boxes are all IBM blades running Linux. The biggest performance hit I guess we have is that we can't use something like exiscan or sa-exim as we need each message to have per-user settings - although we are currently running with system-wide defaults. When we do real per-user settings (via SQL) then we will be introducing a few MySQL servers for spamd look-ups. The biggest performance boost we got was splitting SMTP and SA onto separate servers. HTH Paul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
