[Mimedefang] Performance Tuning

[Robert Covell]

We WERE getting tempfail messages and bumping up the number of available
processes seems to have fixed that issue.  I believe we have the SA set to
the default size limit but will check that one.

Thanks...

Sincerely,

Robert T. Covell
President / Owner
Rolet Internet Services, LLC
Web: www.rolet.com
Email: rcovell at rolet.com
Phone: 816.471.1095
Fax: 816.471.3447
24x7: 816.210.7145

-----Original Message-----
From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com
[mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com]On Behalf Of David F.
Skoll
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:09 AM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Performance Tuning


On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Robert Covell wrote:

> What are the best settings for tuning a setup that has fairly heavy
traffic.
> Several times throughout the day our relay server notifies us of very high
> cpu usage.  We have tried to tweak the setup, which has gotten better, but
> it still runs very high at times.

Do you get any messages tempfailing?  If not, I wouldn't worry about it.
The big performance tweaks:

- Use a ramdisk for the spool directory
- Keep more Perl processes running (set MX_MINIMUM to 10 or so) if your
  box has enough memory.
- Get more memory :-)
- Don't scan large messages with SpamAssassin.  Limit it to <64kB.

Regards,

David.

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