On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote: > 1) The compiled C spamd processes messages faster then the perl module.
I can't believe that. The message processing is still done in Perl, after all. > 2) We run DCC via dccifd before SA and don't bother running SA if DCC has > the message listed. That probably is what helps. > 3) We check account status, quota, blacklists etc before running SA And that. > These last two items mean that SA is run on only about 1 out of 4 messages - > epecially when we are under some sort of dictionary spam attack. We have 60 > MD slaves runing, but only 15 SA threads (and it never ties up all 15). > Since we run a LOT of custom rule sets each SA thread is about 50M, so if I > had SA embedded in each MD slave SA would be consuming 3G of memory instead > of 750M. If you use the embedded Perl interpreter, almost all of that memory should be shared by all the slaves. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
