[Mimedefang] Server performance

[Dirk Mueller]

On Fre, 25 Okt 2002, Jason Abbott wrote:

> Ok, well I said I would get back to you guys with some numbers about our 
> server load.  Yesterday we had a spam bomb of about 255,000 messages hit my 
> spam filters in the space of one hour.  During that time my machines never 
> hit a load over 10, and the longest xdelay of the messages was 35 seconds.  
> During that time we also recieved about 50,000 actaul email messages and we 
> didn't lose a single one.  Excellent product, and I'm telling everyone I know 
> that needs a spam filter to use this combination.

Did you use a tmpfs partition for /var/spool/MIMEDefang?

any details about the hardware?


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Dirk (received 306 mails today)