TazaTek wrote: > I have about 1000 IP's in my blacklist_ip file ... and have been adding > more every week. > > At what point does the number of IP's become a performance penalty ? I > was trying to reduce the load on the network by taking analyzed RBL > matches and place them in the blacklist file.... > > but if there becomes a penalty for adding too many IP's then maybe I > don't want to do this. > > Any feed back on when too many is really too many? > > BTW - I'm on a VPS with 2 GB mem and quad-core CPUS with minimal traffic > on the machine, so plenty of horsepower.... but I'd like to leave it all > in reserves for my next Digg/Slashdot opportunity :) > > Thanks > > Matt > > --
I gather that you're trying to reduce the load on the network by essentially using the blacklist_ip file as a sort of RBL facility. Is RBL processing actually creating that much network traffic, or is this just a guess? Do you have a caching nameserver installed on your server? You should, as that will drastically reduce network traffic. How many / which RBLs are you presently using? You shouldn't need more than a few. Also, if you've specified an unresponsive or slow RBL, that can hinder your performance quite a bit. -- -Eric 'shubes' _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
