> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 13:43:37 +0200
> From: axb.li...@gmail.com
> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Advice re- SA 3.4.0
>
> On 06/07/2014 01:33 PM, hospice admin wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 13:22:13 +0200 From: axb.li...@gmail.com To:
> >> users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Advice re- SA 3.4.0
> >>
> >> On 06/07/2014 01:09 PM, hospice admin wrote:
> >>> I was wondering about this one and had put it to one side until I
> >>> had a chance to look at the memory implications in more detail.
> >>> We run a VM infrastructure here, so I'll load it up on one server
> >>> and keep throwing resources at it until I have something
> >>> approaching stability.
> >>
> >> my Redis DB's memory usage # Memory used_memory:3919713920
> >> used_memory_human:3.65G used_memory_rss:6440914944
> >> used_memory_peak:6307356768 used_memory_peak_human:5.87G
> >> used_memory_lua:99328
> >>
> >> the peak is used when Reids dumps the DB to file, every N minutes.
> >> To do this, a second Redis server instance is started and does the
> >> dump so if you think your Bayes DB will be 4GB... double that (at
> >> least) for safety. If the box starts swapping hard it will all
> >> become incredibly slow or even crash/feed.
> >>
> >> free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 14262652 8116144
> >> 6146508 0 151260 1349872 -/+ buffers/cache: 6615012 7647640 Swap:
> >> 2046968 10396 2036572
> >>
> >>
> >>> An almost related item ... have you found the 'RelayCountry'
> >>> plugin to be worth the effort?
> >> Due to the nature of my traffic I see little use for it.
> >>
> >> Ff you mainly deal with regional traffic it's probably worth
> >> trying.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > WOW! My DB isn't anything like 4GB, but our whole setup presently
> > runs in 6GB, to the increase is likely to be scary big. I guess you
> > get what you pay for though!
>
> Don't let my Redis DB size scare you unless you're handling mail for a
> for tens of thousands of users.
>
> I'd suggest your start off with a dedicated VM for the Redis server,
> assign it 8 GB (to be on the safe side) set our tokens to expire in 2
> weeks and watch it closely. This way if you have a Redis issue, it won't
> affect mail processing
>
> # FOR REDIS ONLY!!!!
> bayes_token_ttl 14d
> bayes_seen_ttl 7d
>
> should get you started...
> You can also limit Redis' memory usage (if you want)
>
>
Thanks for that!
Judy.
