[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang + spamd
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Sep 22 19:39:49 EDT 2004
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Scully wrote:
> 1) The compiled C spamd processes messages faster then the perl module.
I can't believe that. The message processing is still done in Perl,
after all.
> 2) We run DCC via dccifd before SA and don't bother running SA if DCC has
> the message listed.
That probably is what helps.
> 3) We check account status, quota, blacklists etc before running SA
And that.
> These last two items mean that SA is run on only about 1 out of 4 messages -
> epecially when we are under some sort of dictionary spam attack. We have 60
> MD slaves runing, but only 15 SA threads (and it never ties up all 15).
> Since we run a LOT of custom rule sets each SA thread is about 50M, so if I
> had SA embedded in each MD slave SA would be consuming 3G of memory instead
> of 750M.
If you use the embedded Perl interpreter, almost all of that memory
should be shared by all the slaves.
Regards,
David.
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