[Mimedefang] What hardware are you running?

[Shepet, Mike]

We have two sendmail servers running Solaris acting as our relays for an
internal MS Exchange environment.  Both boxes are Sun Ultra2s with over 1GB
of memory, one has two 296MHz cpus while the other is single cpu.  In your
experience, would this hardware be sufficient to add MIMEDefang +
SpamAssassin to the mix?  After testing, we found that 15 concurrent slaves
yielded a five minute load average of 17-20 on the dual cpu box.  Even
though it was responsive at the command prompt, does that sound a bit high?
Lowering the maximum number slaves produced a lot more of the "no free
slaves, try again later" errors.  We average 35-40K emails a day between the
two of them.

Mike Shepet


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