[Mimedefang] Size and scaling questions

[Clayton, Nik [IT]]

> > I work for a large company, who my mail admins are telling 
> me that in order
> > to use Mimedefang and Spam Assassin we need to reconfigure 
> our Mail Servers
> > (Sun, E450, 1GB RAM) to include a RAM Disk.
> 
> This is always a good thing to do, especially on Solaris 
> whose file systems
> are somewhat more conservative (i.e., safer) than Linux.
> 
> You can mount /var/spool/MIMEDefang as a tmpfs file system.  Make
> sure you have enough RAM and swap space; someone else posted 
> sizing tips.

Or just symlink /var/spool/MIMEDefang to somewhere that's already a 
tmpfs filesystem (like, say, /tmp :-) ).

Broadly speaking, a 4GB 4CPU E420 with Sendmail, MIMEDefang, and 
SpamAssassin will max out at around 5.5 messages a second.  By that
I mean that the load hits 32, which seems like a reasonable ceiling to
use.

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