[Mimedefang] Able to stand up to load?

[David F. Skoll]

On 15 Jun 2002, Tim Kramer wrote:

> Anyone have any idea what sort of load a stock (or less-than stock)
> install of MD/SA/uvscan will stand up to?  Actually I'm going to find
> out this coming week but could use any hints.

uvscan will be the bottleneck, because it's a fork/exec.

> I'm running Sendmail 8.12.x, MimeDefang 2.4.x, the current version of
> SpamAssassin, and McAfee's Linux-based uvscan running on BSDi 4.2.

Be careful -- I've heard reports of problems with BSDi's pthreads
implementation.  I'm not sure which versions were affected, but you
want to test it carefully.

> Average load for my systems is 200 messages/minute (semi-evenly split
> over four machines)

That's < 1 per second per machine?  Shouldn't be a problem.

Regards,

David.