Andy Jezierski scribbled on Tuesday, October 05, 2004 2:31 PM:
> There's never anything wrong with going on an archeological dig in the
> computer room. I'm sometimes asked "What's that relic in the
> corner? Does
> it actually have a hard drive?" and people are amazed when I tell them
> "That's what's keeping your mailbox spam free." It works,
> scan times are
> still fairly reasonable, so hey.
>
> 180Mhz of PentiumPro power, and spamd uses every single one of them.
>
> Andy
Andy, Chris, and all,
The bone-yard is exactly where I got the pieces to put together our
(production) email gateway which is filtering our corporate emails. Check
this out... An old 200Mhz Pentium Pro Dell with a 4GB IDE drive and 192MB
ram. Running RedHat9.0, Sendmail, and the latest versions of MailScanner,
Spamassassin, and ClamAV. It is currently processing 5 to 8 thousand emails
a day and has been up for 68 days. Here's a current snapshot of top:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# top
14:41:09 up 68 days, 21:53, 1 user, load average: 0.60, 0.30, 0.19
53 processes: 51 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.3% user 0.3% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 99.2% idle
Mem: 190676k av, 162724k used, 27952k free, 0k shrd, 13948k
buff
112160k actv, 16012k in_d, 484k in_c
Swap: 192772k av, 111580k used, 81192k free 21020k
cached
I get a couple "Spamassassin Timed Out" messages a day but that could be a
network lookup (DNS, SUBRL, etc... who knows), other than that it runs like
a top and keeps us ~97% spam-free and 100% virus free. All stock with no
modifications except for a few whitelist entries.
Machine for email gateway..... $0.00
Software for email gateway.... $0.00
Manhours to maintain.......... $0.00
Unbelievably talented open source
programming wizards to make it all possible... PRICELESS!
Thanks guys and keep up the excellent work!
Ken Goods
Network Administrator
AIA Insurance, Inc.
