[Mimedefang] More solaris problems
John Nemeth
jnemeth at victoria.tc.ca
Tue Mar 21 18:26:27 EST 2006
On Jul 7, 7:38am, Fernando Gleiser wrote:
}
} it seems I'm out of luck with that Sun box. Everything (except syslog) is
} up and runing, but the performance is awful. as soon as I start mimedefang
} the box falls to its knees. I tried making /var/spool/MIMEDefang/
} a swap-backed file system, but that didn't help. I'm starting to believe
} this box isn't powerful enough to run MD
}
} # uname -a
} SunOS mail 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2
}
} bash-2.03# prtconf | head -5
} System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u
} Memory size: 256 Megabytes
Not nearly enough memory. When you consider that each MIMEDefang
slave can take 20+ MB due to the pig known as SpamAssassin, plus the
RAM disk for /var/spool/MIMEDefang, plus the OS, plus anything else
running on the box, you should probably have 512 MB minimal. 1 GB or
more would be better.
}-- End of excerpt from Fernando Gleiser
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