On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:06:38PM +0000, Justin Mason wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 14:39, Henrik K <h...@hege.li> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 06:18:50AM -0800, John Hardin wrote: > >> > >> We don't have any information on available disk, so I was assuming it > >> was limited. > >> ... > >> "no swap" was specified, which also suggests limited disk. > > > > Flash is cheap, I would expect it to be in the GB range. :) > > > > Given that even perl itself takes tens and minimal system hundreds of MBs, a > > 5MB bayes DB doesn't hurt. You won't need more tokens with the resources > > available. > > actually, Bayes would be a good one to drop. If you also remove AWL, > and comment out both "loadplugin" lines, you will remove the need to > load the DB_File database module too. > > commenting plugins and removing rulesets is definitely the way to go. > you may be able to keep some net rules active -- trading long scan > times and latency for low memory.
Why bother using SA then? You will lose lot of efficiency. As already mentioned, 256MB is _plenty_ of memory even for two full SA instances. If you really need massive throughput, the sane way is to use only optimized MTA and milter rules. On my personal server with few users, there is only few messages per hour left for SA to check. If you are in the same situation, there is no need to cripple stuff for fun.
