whats your incomming and out going sessions are u using spamc and a spamd ? if so r u running sufficient spamd clients for the qty of incoming... most mail we receive is proced calmav/spamassasin in under 5s with a box <50% your power... but id increase your ram by 2x...
are u running rbls b4 the spam checks? kenneth gf brown ceo shadowplay.net > -----Original Message----- > From: Max Esquivel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: January 30, 2007 20:15 > To: vchkpw@inter7.com > Subject: [vchkpw] Qmail with Simscan, SA and ClamAv > > > I have also posted this to vchkpw list: > > I have a server with qmail running some 600 email accounts over some > 30 domains. I recently installed simscan, Spamassassin and ClamAv. > It all works really well, but during peak hours (say 300 to 500k per > sec inbound traffic) Thee server starts to bog down and > progressively > gets slower and slower until 120 connections are maxed out and the > server starts rejecting smtp connections first and then pop > connections. This is a new AMD 64 bit with 1Gig Ram running on > Debian and running also Apache with php, mysql, and Horde webmail > (with very very few hits per day). If I turn off simscan, situation > returns to normal after a while. I have tried finding some > documentation about how many users and traffic qmail with > simscan, SA > and Clam may handle, but it seems there is nothing out there other > than very general stuff like "many users", "thousands of users".... > > Perhaps the problem is in my setup and some configuration for > simscan, SA or clam that I have set/not set incorrectly, ot I have > not realized this number of users and trafffic is just too much for > one server. Any suggestions or links to appropriate docs will > be most > appreciated. > > Thanks! > > Max Esquivel > >
