Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Test needed along with sniffer

[Matt]

Harry, Sniffer is a great addition to any Declude setup, however your issues are not due to just simply the size of your processors.  We run a dual 1 GHz PIII system with RAID 5 and 5x10K Cheetahs, and we've managed to exceed 90,000 messages a day with dual virus scanners, and we could handle a bit more still.  My thought is that you are either running a ton of BODY filters, a very slow virus scanner/scanners, or you are experiencing some form of I/O limitation.  The idle processes also suggest that maybe there is an issue and an upgrade to a more recent version of Declude such as 1.79 or an interim release thereafter would be a good idea and most around here run them. You should be able to minimally do 10 times your current volume, so keep looking and keep describing your environment and a solution will likely come along. Matt Harry Vanderzand wrote: I am getting service timeouts due mostly to all the declude instances of traffic volume I handle about 20000 messages a day, most of them during business hours I find that I accumulate declude processes that have consumed up to a minute of cpu time only to be idle and just sit there This also causes accumulated memory to be consumed I have been rebooting this server about twice a week I have also been spending time everyday adding to my filter files The server is a dual Xeon 2.4Ghz, 533 frontside bus with an Intel SATA raid card running Raid 10 It has about 100 small web site that do not get much traffic My goal is to reduce management time of the machine and to stabilize it so the need to reboot it is lessened I am prepared to put in a dual Xeon 3.4GH, etc but also want to make sure that I do not overkill Harry Vanderzand inTown Internet & Computer Services 11 Belmont Ave. W. Kitchener, ON N2M 1L2 519-741-1222 Did you know we offer: - Province wide dial-up and high speed internet access - Web accessible email with anti-spam\antivirus protection - Computer hardware sales and service - Experienced website developers -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Markus Gufler Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Test needed along with sniffer I am testing sniffer right now and wonder if I need to run all the other tests along side it. I am trying to reduce my daily workload of analyzing the "spamtrap" and hope that sniffer and surbl will do this. Do I even need surbl? Do you have so much workload on your mailserver that you need to downsize your spam-filter to one or two tests? Maybe http://www2.spamchk.com/public.htm will give you some answer. Markus --- [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. --- [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. -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =====================================================