On Dienstag, 12. Februar 2008 Curtis Maurand wrote:
> I would separate the MTA/mail scanner (whatever flavor you use) from
> the dbmail machine and let that machine only handle the mail after
> its been processed.  Its been my experience after a couple of
> horrendous masses of loading that most of the overhead (at least in
> my setup) is in Amavis/clam/spamassassin.  

Yes, of course that is on other machines. If you do up to 1000 mails/s, 
it's more than one machine usually :-)

> I set my system (Postfix) 
> for 20 concurrent instances and passed off the final message
> insertion to a separate machine and processed over 70,000 queued
> messages in less than an hour on a single AMD 4200+ with 2GB RAM and
> a SATAII disk system.  Most of those messages were rejected and
> dropped before insertion so I can't really attest to dbmail's
> insertion rates and I'm still running 2.0.10.

This is around 20 messages/s, not bad. But I'd need to know the dbmail 
insertions/s, not the postfix filtering speed. Anyway, thanks for your 
help! 

What system/hardware is your dbmail server? That's the critical point 
for me: the spam filters can be several parallel machines without a 
problem, but dbmail can only run on One Big Iron, that makes me 
headache.

mfg zmi
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