Tom wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Gary V wrote:
>> > FWIW, amavisd/spamassassin caught and either blocked or flagged 125,667 >> > SPAM messages in 13 hours. >> >> I'm curious, is 250,000 (accepted) msgs/day normal traffic for you or >> are you getting hit with a substantial dictionary attack like some >> others? Do you reject mail to invalid recipients? What is your system >> load and available memory like? Are you swap thrashing? Just wondering >> if you need a bigger boat and/or you are wasting what resources you >> have on traffic you should be rejecting. >> >> Gary V >> > Hi Gary, > We've had a pretty large amount of spam traffic for the last couple of > years. Right now it's getting larger all the time. Makes you wonder about > the viability of email down the road. > CPU loads run in the .85 to 1.40 (under heavy load), swap isn't being > used, and there is always at least 50% available memory. > I'm in a budget crunch and sort of have to make do. We've thought about > filtering certain IP blocks at our edge router, but that idea is not very > attractive to me. I'd rather find the real culprits, tie them naked to the > back bumper of an air-conditioned car out in the middle of the desert and > have someone drive about 5mph while I look at them out of the back window > (drinking an ice-cold beer). > Tom That sounds like it is well under control as far utilization goes. If fact, your system may be underutilized. If you have 50% unused memory, you might increase the number of amavisd-new process ($max_servers and complimentary maxproc for the smtp-amavis transport). I would try to get closer to 75% unused memory. I think this would improve throughput. What is your $max_servers at now? How much memory does a typical amavisd process use? If you were running at 50MB per process, and you had 400MB to play with, I would increase the number by 4 or 5, wait a while (maybe an hour), and see where you are at again. Gary V ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
