Matt wrote: > Just an update to everyone.
> I just got the data from our outsourced spam provider. > Yesterday, the 19th, they processed 123,728 messages for us. Of those, > 71,097 were blocked and 20,000 quarantined. > So my question below should wrap around that data. Will it be able to > process 123,728 messages per day, with antivirus/antispam and local mail > delivery? > I have measures in place to bounce incoming mail with invalid HELO's, > invalid domains, etc. and that happens first, so that will block a lot of > messages. > Thanks, > Matt > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Matt Juszczak wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We're running postfix right now on our mail server. Mail server always has >> 97% CPU idle and we have 4 gb of RAM, to which most is usually free. >> >> We deliver mail for about 5000 accounts, but our spam filtering is currently >> outsourced to Postini. I don't know off the top of my head how hammered >> postini gets for messages addressed to our domain names, but I'm sure its a >> lot (we've been an ISP for 10 years). >> >> I have amavisd-new running on this mail server with anti virus and spam >> assassin. I'm afraid that when we turn postini off and switch our MX >> records >> over, the machine will just get overloaded, even though its dual xeon 3.4 >> ghz/4 GB RAM, etc.... >> >> I actually wasn't amazingly afraid until a coworker mentioned something. >> >> How well should this setup handle OK? What about during a DOS attack? >> Should >> I put amavisd-new on another machine? If I do that, that machine might not >> be able to take the load anyway..... >> >> Thanks in advance for any ideas, >> >> Matt >> With this type of setup, I think it would be prudent to do some preliminary research so you understand how to tune amavisd-new and SpamAssassin for optimum throughput. I'm sure there are many on the list with busy servers that will share their ideas, I am not one of those, but I do have something you can read that may be of interest. http://hup.hu/old/archiv/martinec.pdf Gary V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
