I'm not sure what actions will result in bypassing Declude Virus, but HOLD and DELETE surely do. Since over 80% of E-mail is spam on the typical system, that should save you a great deal over processing everything with Virus, though JunkMail is where most of the processing goes when you are running custom filters. I'm not sure if you have upgraded to 1.77i7+ yet, but the SKIPIFWEIGHT, MAXWEIGHT and END functionality was a huge savings for my server. Even re-ordering your custom filters to put the bigger hogs with the least impact and rarest hits at the bottom was a big help with SKIPIFWEIGHT. Probably more than 80% of my spam never hits a custom filter, and 97% of my spam never hits every filter file.
I just upgraded to IMail 8 and am using WHITELIST AUTH and PREWHITELIST ON, and that also saves on processing. I'm nowhere near your utilization, but I hate to ever see my processors pegged due to the fact that the machine currently performs many tasks besides E-mail.
Matt
Russ Uhte (Lists) wrote:
At 01:23 PM 1/12/2004, Sanford Whiteman wrote:
> This server normally processes about 200,000 emails a day, running > sniffer, most of the MailPure filters, and antivirus. Normally the > processor utilization during peak times is right around 40-50% on a > 1 minute average.
That's pretty high to start out. Try lowering the priority of Perl.exe to Low and see if the server stabilizes.
I guess that was a noble try... but it didn't work. I'm going to try to separate the spamd/spamc processes and see how that goes. I know this server is grossly underpowered for what I'm trying to do, but I inherited it this way, and I don't think I'm gonna get to buy a new one here anytime soon. The person before didn't understand how to spec out a mailserver.
On a related note, does anyone know if there is any performance gain in having Junkmail or Virus running first? We currently scan for JunkMail first just to get an accurate count of the spam we receive.
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