On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 08:31, frankieh wrote: > Have you considered using amavis-new? > > My mailserver is an old 233mmx with 192MB ram and its handling about > 1500 mails a day. as well as performing other tasks. > (some days it handles well over 2500 emails, and at least 200 of those > are spam dutifully caught by spamassassin) > > Its using postfix with amavis-new as a content filter, spamassassin and > Trophy/trend filescan/clamd and it gets a hammering but the mail is > still as fast as anyone needs it to be. > (its also running secure pop3 and secure imap.) > because amavis-new is a perl daemon, it's loaded into memory upon > startup and loads spamassassin in with it, so there is no delay for > startup. its been proven that there is no benefit in speed between > spamd and mail::spamassassin when the later is loaded into memory by > amavis-new already.
With the increasing amount of spam, I'm considering changing packages anyways...it's getting to be such a bleeding hassle... > Stephen, part of your problem is your dependence on Sendmail, its > resource usage and memory footprint are much higher then Postfix or > Qmail, and its performance is lower. >From top: 22607 nobody 25 0 44784 40m 6028 R 29.7 4.5 16:14.00 spamd 22668 nobody 25 0 44640 40m 6028 R 29.0 4.5 16:12.41 spamd 22647 nobody 25 0 44912 40m 6028 R 27.7 4.6 16:12.51 spamd ...MailScanner and sendmail are far far below on the list... > I'm about to upgrade my mail server, it's currently mdk9.0 and I'm > changing to a much faster machine with Debian Woody with backported > versions of the latest postfix/spamassassion/amavis-new/clamd I've > already setup a test server and so far it is performing well. (I'm > changing the servers all over to debian because their stable release is > supported for far longer periods then any mandrake release, and I hate > upgrading servers with a passion.) stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
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