[Mimedefang] Some info about amounts/day/load

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Fredrik Hansen wrote:

> Software:
> RedHat9.0 2.4.20-24.9smp
> MIMEDefang 2.39
> F-Prot 4.1.2
> Sendmail 8.12.9/8.12.8

> Hardware:
> Motherboard MSI9015, mainly 133FSB is interesting to know
> Dual 866 P3
> 768 Mb DDR Ram, 510Mb Swap
> Pretty regular 7200RPM/133 IDE drives
> 10mbit FD connection.

> I tested with the following setup:
> Mimedefang flags:
> MX_MINIMUM=10
> MX_MAXIMUM=15
> MX_IDLE=10
> MX_QUEUE_SIZE=90
> MX_QUEUE_TIMEOUT=300

You might want MX_EMBED_PERL=yes also.

> So, next up is putting bins and mailspool in a ramdisk to get rid of the
> HD bottleneck :-)

Do NOT put your mail spool on a ramdisk!  It's OK to put
/var/spool/MIMEDefang on a ramdisk, but not /var/spool/mqueue.
Putting /var/spool/MIMEDefang on a ramdisk will help throughput a lot;
you should easily achieve 5 or 6 messages/second on that hardware.

Regards,

David.