--On Tuesday, January 10, 2006 13:26 -0800 Stephen Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm running Solaris 9 on a dual processor 220R with 2 gigs of ram and the box is having trouble keeping up with spam!?!? I am using all the bells and whistles spamassassin and mimedefang can have, minus the virus protection (another box handles that). I have a min/max of 20/90 for mimedefang and I'm no longer hitting a max number of files open ceiling...... I'd say 90% of our email is spam (we are a small college with ~3000 email accounts) with scores averaging 20 and above :-/ I'm going to add a local dns (even though the dns doesn't appear to be the bottle neck) and perhaps host a dcc server..... I can also setup another box and round robin them but I shouldn't *have to* should I? Oh, and yes /var/spool/MIMEDefang is swap.
Our incoming pool includes a v210 with 2 gigs ram, and it does 150,000 messages a day without problems-- as comparison. MX_MINIMUM=5, MX_MAXIMUM=50. It doesn't hit 50 unless something is seriously wrong with our mail system, and in that case a maximum is a good thing. Definitely run named and nscd on mail servers. Sendmail does a lot of dns lookup and it makes a big difference. /tmp and /var/spool/MIMEDefang should be swap (tmpfs), right. That's almost twice the per cent of junk we get, and I'm counting 8 and up. 90% scores 20 and up in Spamassassin? That's incredible. I thought we had it bad, and now you've cheered me up :-) ...sorry! Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
