Andrew Ott said: > > Amavisd-new launches spamassasin in perl form rather then use spamd.
This is true, but amavisd does load the perl spamassassin code into memory once at startup, so it's just as fast as spamd. > The fedora core machines running amavisd-new are both 2.4 dual xeons with > 4gb of memory > Amavisd-new virus scanning and spam scanning with spamassasin is using > about > 18% cpu, and for everything we have about 1.8gb of memory in use, but that > includes a virtual workspace for amavisd-new, which makes it much faster > then doing it on disk. Ah, excellent idea... > We average a 1.12 load on the servers. We are > also > using a raid 10 array of 4 ultra 320 scsi disks for faster write for the > sendmail queues. Check, that makes good sense. > Andrew > > >>> We are using 2 fedora core 2 machines running dual sendmail with >>> amavisd-new, spamassassin 3.0, clamav, delivered to a database using >>> dbmail, all with individual user preferences. For frontend machines. >>> And 2 fedora core 2 machines running sendmail, dbmail-imapd and >>> dbmail-pop3d, along with the horde web mail system for full webmail, >>> calendar, address book, and task-list functions. > > email builder Wrote: >>May I ask if you are running spamd? How much CPU does SA consume? > > > --
