Gary wrote: > 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. Sorry, I was trying to say 25% unused, 75% used. 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/
