[Mimedefang] Server load

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Tom Horan wrote:

> At the moment I get about 12/15k messages per day, through a Compaq
> Proliant ML370 Dual Pentium III 1Ghz, 768MB RAM, RedHat 6.2, Sendmail 8.9.3
> without any problems.

Even with MIMEDefang and SpamAssassin, your server is over-powered for
12/15k messages/day. :-)  It should be no problem.

The only caveat is if you receive a lot of very big messages, SA will
be slow.  In that case, don't run SA on messages larger than 50-60kB or so.

--
David.