On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 12:53, Jeff Koch wrote:
> Does anybody have any suggestion for improving the performance of a
> mailserver runnning qmail/vpopmail/qmailadmin/qmail-scanner/spamassassin?
are you using spamd and having qmail-scanner call spamc? or is it
calling spamassassin. if the latter, change it to spamd/spamc model,
much more efficient.
> We're using a 2.4Ghz P4 with 1GB RAM and a 40GB SCSI drive. The operating
> system is a basic RH8.0 install with the ext3 journalling file system.
> We're handling about 50K messages/day and seem to exhausting the
> capabilities of the server. During peak periods CPU idle time reaches 0%
> and load averages will exceed 10.0
with ext3 you have to be careful about catchall accounts, and accounts
that nobody checks that get a lot of email. If there are say, 25000
messages in an account and it gets 100 messages per hour, that will
bring your server performance down quite a bit.
of course, using reiserfs on the mail store will fix that problem. I've
had over 150k emails in one account with reiserfs, and the system wasn't
even being phased as I pumped more mail at it (was load testing for a
customer)
> We would welcome any suggestions or URL's that you could point to -
> particularly with respect to performance tuning that will work with qmail.
what is the approximate queue load, and what is your conf-split value?
do you have big-{ext-,}todo?
-Jeremy
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