Good grief there is some big iron being used :) *server envy* The only thing I have to offer is get lots of memory.
Now a slight hijack...... Do any of you guys with big iron and high traffic use any custom rulesets? The group is still curious about the effects they might have on high volume. We are trying to write fast regex. But without having a high traffic server I have no idea. --Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: David Birnbaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:12 AM > To: Rick Macdougall > Cc: Stephen Gran; Spamassassin-Users > Subject: Re: [OT] Specing out a new box > > > We have an old Sun E3500 with 4GB and 8 360MHz processors > here. It does > full SpamAssassin (RBLs and all) and Sophos-based antivirus. > It's doing > about 120-150k messages a day, and can average 1-2 mails per second > without too much trouble. The biggest delays seems to be RBL-type > queries. The load has never gone above 4-5, running up to 12 > spamassassin > processes in a daemon mode. > > David. > > ----- > > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Rick Macdougall wrote: > > > > > > > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I've been lurking here for a little while, and haven't > seen this kind of > > > thing come up, so I was curious if anyone has any > suggestions about it. > > > One of the companies we do backend work for has a very > busy mail server > > > - averages probably 50 messages/minute, with peak burst > periods of about > > > 100-110 messages/minute. Running spamc/spamd on that box > resulted in > > > huge load averages (30-40 or more) at peak time, and > loads of 15 or 16 > > > at normal time. > > > > > > We are in the process of revamping things, and will > probably move to a > > > distributed spamd, but we are also thinking about > replacing the mail > > > server itself. We need a little more juice to do other > things like > > > running clamd and whatnot. I was just wondering what > hardware other > > > people are using for this volume of email - ~75000 > emails/day, some days > > > more (especially when one of these worms pops up it's > head). Right now > > > it's running on an smp AMD K7 or so, but we're looking > for suggestions > > > for upgrade. > > > > Hi, > > > > We are running a 2.8Ghz P4 with 1 gig of ram as our inbound > > pre-filtering mail server. It runs qmail with > qmail-scanner and clamd > > and uses spamc to process them through SpamAssassin running > on a second > > machine. > > > > It's average email processing (not smtp connections as a > lot are blocked > > via a few rbl's, badmailfrom entries and the like) is 75 > messages per > > minute with bursts to over 175 per minute. Load averages > stay around > > 0.8 and I have seen it go as high as 2.x or 3.x for small > periods of time. > > > > The SpamAssassin machine is actually just going into > production now and > > it is a 3 Ghz P4 with 1.5 gigs of memory. We ran it last > night during > > our peak user period and it processed everything we threw at it (the > > above mail server plus another mail server) with load > averages hovering > > around 0.45. > > > > All of our machines run FreeBSD or Linux Slackware. These > two happen to > > be running FreeBSD 4.8. > > > > HTH, > > > > Rick > > > > > > >
