Sandy Drobic wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Sandy Drobic wrote:
I am running Amavisd-new as a proxy-filter, so I can reject spam when it is recognised by Amavisd-new. Due to the resource consumption this is only advisable for low volume sites or sites with capable hardware.
Even with very capable hardware, it usually takes too long. Most of the SA processing isn't CPU-bound - sometimes I wish it was, it would make it much easier to speed up processing.
No problem on my hardware. (^-^) It takes about 2 seconds to process a mail (from connect up to delivery to imap). I haven't timed it exactly to see which part of the SA tests take that long.
The ones that can take longer are the DNS lookups. Of course it depends on how much you process, but when a mailserver is doing 5-6 mails/second, it does slow down processing overall, regardlkess of the hardware. Most of my DNS lookups are even local.
But with 8 GB RAM, Quadcore 2.83 GHz and a BBU supported raid card with 5 disks I don't worry. If I've got the hardware I should use it. (^-^)
The funny thing is that even my test-system - a few ancient boxes of 400MHz PII with maybe 512M RAM each - can do about 1 mail/second. Starting SA/spamd takes a lot longer than on modern systems, but the processing isn't much slower than on my production systems which are running 2GHz. /Per -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org