Vernon wrote: >>I concur, the console scanner is very slow, but it caught a few clamd >>missed and my load is light. I use clamd, bdc, f-prot and Trend. >> >>Gary V >> >> > That's exactly why I like having BitDefender enabled. It's cought > several of the Behaves-like virus prior to clamav, or any other > scanner. I thinking the out-of-memory is simply the combination of > apache/squirrelmail+spamassassin+virus scanning+amavisd. It adverages > around 1500 messges per hour of which 800-1000 are discarded as spam via > amavisd/spamassassin. 3-4 times per day I see inbound smtp delivers > spike to around 1500 within 2-5 minutes. This is where the system fails > - I might need to look closer at smtp rate limiting which very well > might solve this.
> Vernon Are you using Postfix and is your server on the Internet (not behind another server)? Do you reject mail to unknown users? Do you have any other anti-spam measures in place in front of amavisd-new? I find policyd-weight (set to a permissive 4.2) very safe and quite valuable. My primary server rejects 85% of the mail before amavisd-new sees it and this is done without configuring RBLs or using greylisting in Postfix. On my secondary server I can afford to be more aggressive therefore I use greylisting and a couple RBLs and I get a 99% rejection rate on that machine. I made a HOWTO for Debian users (but much of it would apply to any Postfix box). http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/additional_settings.html Gary V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ 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/
