At 05:05 PM 1/12/2004, Sanford Whiteman wrote:
I guess that was a noble try... but it didn't work.
Well, it probably worked, just not enough. :)
Yeah, I'll buy that! :)
I'm going to try to separate the spamd/spamc processes and see how
that goes.
That will alleviate the utilization issue, for sure. Depending on the
age of your server, you should think about adding an additional
processor. I find that that's one fun part about running mail on old
boxes with new disks: as it gives you ability to scale up processing
on the cheap as needed, while still giving peak performance for
disk-starved tasks. A lot of people inadvertently err on the side of
processor power by buying new boxes and ignoring DASD optimization.
Unfortunately, this particular server is out of space for new drives
internally. Now realistically, I could rebuild it and do it right, and it
would probably last a very long time. When I got the server, it had 4
drives configured for Raid 5 in a single logical drive with 3
partitions. I added two more drives in a mirrored set, and moved the spool
to this. That helped drastically. I may look into external scsi drives...
I know this server is grossly underpowered for what I'm trying to
do, but I inherited it this way, and I don't think I'm gonna get to
buy a new one here anytime soon. The person before didn't understand
how to spec out a mailserver.
Gotcha.
One thing you should know about that I'm building into SPAMC32 right
now is a SKIPIFWEIGHT option that will return 0 immediately if a
(Declude) weight has already been exceeded, thus saving processing for
way out-of-range spam.
Now that would be awesome. If there's anything I can do to help, let me
know. I don't know a much about VB (I think that's what it's written in?)
but I'd be willing to help in anyway I can.
Thanks,
Russ
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