[Mimedefang] 40K+ emails a day and choking

[John Scully]

If "Oh, and yes /var/spool/MIMEDefang is swap." does not mean that
/var/spool/MIMEDefang is on a tmpfs, then put it on one.  If it is on disk
you have a huge bottleneck.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Ford" <stephenmford at yahoo.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:26 PM
Subject: [Mimedefang] 40K+ emails a day and choking


>
> I'm running Solaris 9 on a dual processor 220R with 2
> gigs of ram and the box is having trouble keeping up
> with spam!?!?  I am using all the bells and whistles
> spamassassin and mimedefang can have, minus the virus
> protection (another box handles that).  I have a
> min/max of 20/90 for mimedefang and I'm no longer
> hitting a max number of files open ceiling......  I'd
> say 90% of our email is spam (we are a small college
> with ~3000 email accounts) with scores averaging 20
> and above :-/
>
> I'm going to add a local dns (even though the dns
> doesn't appear to be the bottle neck) and perhaps host
> a dcc server.....  I can also setup another box and
> round robin them but I shouldn't *have to* should I?
>
> Oh, and yes /var/spool/MIMEDefang is swap.
>
> Any sug
>
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