I had been leary of putting the /var/spool/MIMEDefang dir on a ramdisk. It has only 512MB of RAM.
But my server had been under a huge deluge of SPAM since the weekend. The server was choking under the load. MAX_SLAVES was being hit and everything slave was busy. Accord to watch-defang the system could only handle around 1.3-1.5 messages per second. I moved /var/spool/MIMEDefang to a ramfsfile system (Linux). Wow! What a difference. The server is handling 3+ messages per second without breaking a sweat. And the best thing, the number of slaves has stayed at MIN_SLAVES. Not one addition slave has been need. I can't wait to see how the server performs tomorrow at peak mail loads. Server is a Dual P3 800Mhz, 512MB of RAM running SA 2.55, MD 2.35, ClamAV and File::Clean. -- Stephen L Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Information Systems State of Arkansas 501-682-4339 _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
