Quoting Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello there Len, it's been a long time! > > Hello Eric, > >> I am running a 55W Quad Core Opteron with 4Gb of RAM with only 4 amavisd >> processes and it runs like "the wind" >> >> I think you should install more memory, I realize you put 1MB but really you >> have 1GB yes? =) > > As I said, when the machine was groaning earlier, there were about > 200 - 300 MB ram free, enough for more amavis processes which take > about 70 MB each. > > mx1# egrep -ic '... .. 11.*(passed clean|blocked spam)' /var/log/maillog > 662 > > mx1# egrep -ic '... .. 11.*relay=69.51.71.16.*status=sent' /var/log/maillog > 370 > > I will ask the customer to put in another MB. > > But I still feel there's something throttling amavis with the > current hardware. This machine groans on passing 900 - 1100 > msgs/hour? I think it can do a lot better.
Strange, I am running on dual-quad core 2.3ghz machines. But my amavisd mail servers are inside of xen, that has 4 cpu's, and 6gigs of ram. I run with 30 amavisd threads, 15 for incoming email, 10 for user authenicated email (just virus scanning), and 5 to scan email from ssh/web/... servers. Normally incoming email takes 5seconds to pass virus+spam checks and be delievered. I have had backqueues sometimes, but never due to amavis, normally due to a hardware failure, or administrative error. Having up do 28k emails queued, and it takes just under an hour for them to all go through amavisd and be delievered, at approx 8 emails per second. This is a linux xen machine, using postfix + amavisd (without any ramdisk, played with using them, but they where always causing issues), and mailstores is on nfs. The disks are rail1 72gig sas 15krpm drives, I never see any load on the drives. Memory usage normally sits at 4-5gigs of ram active, no swap. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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/
