> At 03:27 11/25/2003 -0600, Scott A Crosby wrote: > ... except one caveat: What was the memory utilization like? That's *my* > big problem with SA - I had to bump the RAM in my mailserver twice (256M > -> > 512M -> 1G) for SA alone, and it's still shakey to the point I cannot > deploy it sitewide... :-/ > >>So my question is, when I finish the matching engine, if I finish it, >>is there any interest in trying to use it to match spam? A year ago, >>the consensus seemed to be that everyone was pretty much happy with >>SA's performance. Its not fast, but it is fast enough. >> >>Is that still true? > > Not for me, anyway... I am actually looking for a full replacement right > now for SA that might be deployable sitewide... my system is an Athlon > 1800+ / 1G RAM / 2 9G SCSI HDs / 1 IDE HD (just backup shiznit)... and SA > brings this down *regularly*, despite only using it on ~100 mailboxen... > I'm not chancing 2500!
Sounds like you don't have it installed or set up properly then. I'm running it on a P4 2.4Ghz, with 1G ram, and a couple of IDE 120GB drives in RAID1, and its supporting a couple of thousand mailboxes, and doing over 15,000 messages a day on average, and it handles it effortlessly. Load average is typically between 0.5 and 2, and seldom goes above 2. Sendmail + Procmail with spamc called from procmail, and I have RBL, Sitewide Bayes, DCC, and Razor all enabled. If you havn't already, let the list know how you have it set up (MTA, method of integration etc) and someone should be able to help you. At a guess you might have no concurancy limiting for scanning, thats the most common cause of a server getting overloaded if a burst of lots of messages come in...(any server can be brought to its knees with enough messages arriving simultaneously if you don't have sensible limits on SA concurancy) Regards, Simon ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
