[Mimedefang] Bigger MAX_QUEUE_SIZE, why is there a hardcodedlimit ?
Stephen L Johnson
stephen.johnson at arkansas.gov
Wed Aug 8 18:17:54 EDT 2007
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 22:15 +0100, Paul Murphy wrote:
> Mack wrote:
>
> > each mail (inc SA should take way less than 1s inc virus scanning).
>
> Woah! Sweeping generalisation alert!
>
> If you have a monster server with 64Gb of RAM, a super-fast processor, a RAM
> disk for everything, and only one e-mail arriving at a time, you might just
> (and I really mean *might*) get the whole of SA down to 1 second, but to
> manage this for the whole message is completely impossible in my experience.
>
> Does your Spamassassin implementation actually do any rule processing? DNS
> RBL lookups? Bayesian analysis? Auto whitelisting? I can't believe it
> does.
>
> Add in a message size dependency for both SA and AV, and you're waaaaay over
> 1 second.
Processing times can be down under a second. I have an incoming mail
cluster which mean scan times that do stay under 1 second for a
significant amounts of time. And scan times are generaly well under 2
cdonds. I have most of the milters running on a pair of somewhat hefty
back-end servers (Dual 1.66GHz Power 5 P-series). The front-end servers
just handle the mail tasks.
I found it too hard to balance the 2 types of loads on the same box
(sendmail and mimedefang). So I split the mail handling from the heavy
lifting. It was easier to tune the systems for the load they'll carry.
And as a result I found I could use some lower end servers on the
front-end for mail handling.
--
Stephen L Johnson <stephen.johnson at arkansas.gov>
Unix Systems Administrator / DNS Hostmaster
Department of Information Systems
State of Arkansas
501-682-4339
More information about the MIMEDefang
mailing list