> On Jul 7, 7:38am, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > } > } it seems I'm out of luck with that Sun box. Everything (except syslog) > is > } up and runing, but the performance is awful. as soon as I start > mimedefang > } the box falls to its knees. I tried making /var/spool/MIMEDefang/ > } a swap-backed file system, but that didn't help. I'm starting to believe > } this box isn't powerful enough to run MD > } > } # uname -a > } SunOS mail 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 > } > } bash-2.03# prtconf | head -5 > } System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u > } Memory size: 256 Megabytes > > Not nearly enough memory. When you consider that each MIMEDefang > slave can take 20+ MB due to the pig known as SpamAssassin, plus the > RAM disk for /var/spool/MIMEDefang, plus the OS, plus anything else > running on the box, you should probably have 512 MB minimal. 1 GB or > more would be better.
I run my scanning system on a AIX variant PPC604 w/128MB (and 4 slaves) which works great for me... it's all about figuring out the needs carefully. On my server, it's the bare minimum.. no X, nothin else running that I don't need. Your box does sound underpowered for the needs. -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T, S.P. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.benjammin.net gPG Pub Key - http://www.benjammin.net/www/pages/library _______________________________________________ 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
