[Mimedefang] Server load
Jason Abbott
teljanin at uga.edu
Tue Oct 15 11:48:01 EDT 2002
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Ok; I just ran a test of my Mimedefang using a production queue of 19566
messages.
The hardware in question is a Compaq ML-370, dual 1.2gHz, 4 GB ram, 2-9gig
mirrored OS drives running ext3, and 2-36gig striped /var/spool running
reiserfs. I also have a 500 meg RAM disk for /var/spool/MIMEDefang.
Software is RedHat Linux 7.2 with all the security updates, Sendmail 8.12.6,
Mimedefang 2.21, and SpamAssassin 2.41. Spam Assassin was set with a
threshold of 10, and mimedefang had 30 multiplexor processes running.
With that out of the way, now for the numbers:
Mimedefang/SA scanned 19566 messages in 39 minutes 32 seconds with a
maximum delay of 2 minutes 40 seconds.
This translates to roughly 495 emails per minute scanned.
Of this 19566 emails, 33.8% (or 6617) were classified as spam. Our highest
scoring spam got a whopping 76.2.
The load got very high (over 90%) but the system was always very responsive,
there was no slowdown at the command prompt.
So, anyone who wanted hard numbers, here you go.
FYI: I was sending the queue from a similar machine to this machine, then it
was being forwarded to another machine to simulate an actual filter gateway.
I am extremely pleased with performance so far. I am going into production
with this equipment Thursday evening.
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Jason Abbott
Productions Systems Support
Enterprise IT Services
University of Georgia
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