[Mimedefang] Re: Parameters for tuning mimedefang

[Jeremy Mates]

* -ray <ray at ops.selu.edu>
> I saw similar numbers when testing our new mail system, but on a Quad
> Xeon 4GB/RAM. If found a major bottleneck to be the maillog file. When
> i set syslog to start loging to /dev/null, it increased to 25/second.
> anyone seen this before? I know it is a problem for high-capacity
> websites, and some turn off logging in Apache.

Linux syslog allows async log writes via a hypen prefix:

mail.*                                                  -/var/log/maillog

Another option would be to not log to local disk, but instead use a
remote loghost. If udp dropouts are a concern, use an enhanced log
daemon that allows tcp connections, such as syslog-ng.