> I've been running SA on a Cobalt Qube since 2.42 was current, and it's > been a wonderful solution. Recently I moved to running spamd -d to > because of the increased load the increase in spam was putting on the > server. Now that's not cutting it- they're hitting me so hard I'm > seeing processor loads in the 30's, and my poor little Qube is buckling > under the load- I can't ssh in, email exchanges time out, ect. > > What else can I do to make SA run as quickly as possible- besides the > obvious "buy a bigger server"?
I don't think tuning is going to get your loads down much from the 30's. Assuming a best case optimization gives you a 10% to 15% improvement, your box will still be overloaded. How many emails per hour/day are you receiving and over what link speed?
