On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:45:33PM -0400, Tom Gwilt 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).
You really should use something like policyd-weight, and greylisting (only for "dialup" like addresses, I hate to delay mail for normal servers). That immediately reduces your load significantly.. Cheers, Henrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
