Same here and we only got a Dual P3 450 with 384MB ram. Just humming alone just fine doing virus scanning and spamfiltering. Getting about 16k messages per day (about 10k blocked per day man I hate spammers) usually have a cpu load between 10-30% for most part sometimes some spikes up to 70-90%.
/ Eje Saturday, September 6, 2003, 12:04:56 AM, you wrote: WOD> Me too, i'm running win2k on a dual processor 933 p3 with 1 gi memory and WOD> it's just humming along at low cpu usage.... WOD> just my 2 cents WOD> ----- Original Message ----- WOD> From: "Matthew Bramble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WOD> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WOD> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 6:07 PM WOD> Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude v1.75 bogs down the server >> Keith, >> >> Assuming that it's a cascade effect from being near capacity, have you >> taken a look at saving processing and/or memory from other tasks. For >> instance, real-time anti-virus software can cause significant load on a >> busy machine. Even if you have it excluding log files and the like, >> there are some things that you might want to exclude as well. Norton >> Corporate has a real-time scan monitor that recently showed me that >> every time a user's .MBX file is written to, IMail creates a temporary >> .L file, and excluding that file type can save lots of scan time on a >> busy mail server. There's also a file in IMail's directory that changes >> every minute, imonitor.dat. >> >> Regarding your setup, I'm surprised at the hit you are taking. I >> probably have a lot less volume, but in watching task manager on Win2k, >> it's almost impossible for me to catch sight of Declude's appearances, >> and it might pull 2% max. I run a dual 1 Ghz PIII RAID 5 system with 1 >> GB of memory. That's not all that much more powerful than what you are >> using. Seems kind of strange. Maybe Win2k is actually that much >> better??? I'm currently runing Declude 1.75i4 with several extensive >> text filters. >> >> Matt >> >> >> Keith Johnson wrote: >> >> >Scott, >> > The DECODE OFF option; what would it not catch (i.e. Spam) had the WOD> option been turned on? I understand Base64, but what kind of HTML decoding? WOD> We have a server at capacity as well, but we are not adding anymore WOD> customers to it, however, at times the CPU is at 100% which causes the Web WOD> Messaging to be slow. However, I don't want to sacrifice not catching some WOD> spam either. Thanks for the info. >> > >> >Keith >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Sent: Fri 9/5/2003 5:45 PM >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Cc: >> > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Declude v1.75 bogs down the server >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >After upgrading from Declude v1.65 to v1.75 I noticed my Imail server >> > >taking quite a performance hit. After upgrading my CPU usage went from >> > >50%-55% up to 98%-100%. Reverting back to v1.65 returned the CPU usage >> > >back to normal. I am running Imail version 7.07. The server is WOD> running >> > >NT4.0 SP 6A. The server is a dual Pentium 550 with 512k of ram and a WOD> raid 5. >> > > >> > >Has anyone else experienced this type of performance hit? Would WOD> Upgrading >> > >to Imail Version 8 or upgrading to Windows 2000 server help? >> > >> > If you were already at 50%-55%, you're close to the limits of the WOD> server. >> > >> > I would recommend adding a line "DECODE OFF" to the >> > \IMail\Declude\global.cfg file to see if that alleviates the problem WOD> (that >> > will prevent some base64 and HTML decoding that v1.75 does, that could WOD> use >> > some extra CPU time). >> > >> > -Scott >> > >> > >> >> >> --- >> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus WOD> (http://www.declude.com)] >> >> --- >> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found >> at http://www.mail-archive.com. >> WOD> --- WOD> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] WOD> --- WOD> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To WOD> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and WOD> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found WOD> at http://www.mail-archive.com. Best regards, Eje Gustafsson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The Family Entertainment Network eFax : 240-376-7272 Phone : 620-231-7777 Fax : 620-231-4066 Online Store http://www.fament.com/catalog/ - Your Full Time Professionals - -- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
