Yes the old server was a Quad PII - 4 Intel 400Mhz processors, it ran like a champ with QMT, Apache, Bind, and FreeRadius. As soon as the Apache, Bind, and QMT were rolled into VMWare -it became a dog. I used about every tweak I could find on the internet to make it work better. I think the problem is VMWare Server 2 - it's just slow. Unfortunately I could not use Xen or KVM because of the old processors. From what I could research, they would have worked much better. I am pretty anxious to see how this runs on another server with dual Intel 3.Ghz processors. Unfortunately they aren't dual core, but we should still see some marked improvement.
Jack -----Original Message----- From: Eric Shubert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 10:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [qmailtoaster] Re: How things can work and do sort themselves out with a little help MagicWISP Sales wrote: > I just wanted to thank everybody for their help. I had a qtp toaster > running on VMWare on a Quad Pentium 2 machine - let me tell you that > will not work. It was an experiment that got pressed into service as > an emergency. Scan times after killing blacklists and ClamAV on > emails of 222k were at 300 seconds, wow. It caused duplicate emails > and all kinds of craziness, even after adding Spamdyke. I used one of > Jakes tips on his video page and cut the scan time down to an average > of 110 on the same email. Quite an improvement but still too high to > be usable. I moved the VM to a temp machine this week, an old > E-Machines computer of all things with an AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor > with a whole 1G of memory, and scan times on the same message fell to > 17 seconds. Again - still too high, but at least the duplicate emails > stopped. I just used another tweak from Jakes video site and the scan > time fell to 9 seconds, with the blacklists and ClamAV scans going > again. That will work until the replacement server gets here next > week. If you are using VMWare, you really need a higher end machine, > I think that could be the moral of this story. The first server that > was in use, had a sister sitting right next to it that ran the QTP, > plus webhost, plus a radius server, and never ever broke a sweat. > VMWare is a hog to say the least. Jake's video subscription may be > the best thing I have found for some quick instruction on usage of > real world tweaks. Jake and Eric are always willing to help, and have > great experiences to provide. Also a shout out to Brent for fixing > the Spamdyke script - it works. Now if I can figure out how to make > the smtp log change at midnight instead of whenever it wants, I will > be happy. Great job all of you guys - you really are lifesavers!!! > Thanks for sharing. Before I comment on this, I want to check the facts. This was a Quad P-II, and not a Quad P-4, right? Just checking. Not that it would make all that much difference. I'll have some comments to make regarding your experience with VM guests soon. FWIW, I just migrated a QMT from one VM guest to another, on the same host. The former ran nicely (and still does on another host). The new QMT VM is a pig. I'm not sure what the problem is yet. Top takes 10% of the cpu on the pig host, while on another guest w/ same kernel, top runs less than 1%. So somewhere I'm seeing a ~10x performance difference between 2 guests on the same host. It'll be interesting (to say the least) to find the reason why. There are some differences between the 3 guests, but not too many. I hope to nail it soon. -- -Eric 'shubes' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qmailtoaster is sponsored by Vickers Consulting Group (www.vickersconsulting.com) Vickers Consulting Group offers Qmailtoaster support and installations. If you need professional help with your setup, contact them today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit qmailtoaster.com for the latest news, updates, and packages. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
