Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 17:40 +0100, Jona Joachim wrote: >> I hadn't thought about fetching failures. I wanted the whole thing to be >> lightweight because it should run on a 300MHz Pentium II with limited RAM. > How limited is the RAM?
64MB PC100 SDRAM currently. > To see of yourself, setup fetchmail --> postfix --> ( procmail --> ) > Maildir/ > Let it run and check your system load with top. You'll find, that with > mail coming from localhost (fetchmail), and no checks on postfix's side > being done, you'll have plenty of cycles to spare. I'll try that out. If the box runs out of RAM I'll simply buy some more. Those old DIMMs are not very expensive anymore. > Now add amavisd-new to the mix. Check your load again. > > Point is, on any machine that's powerful enough to be considered for use > with amavisd-new (and I assume spamassassin, and at least one virus > scanner), to add postfix or not to add postfix wil hardly make a > difference in your resource usage. I'd like to use SpamAssassin together with Razor/Pyzor/DCC and ClamAV. > And in my experience, the kind of hard discs that came with Pentium-II > class computers are generally the bottelneck in this kind of setup, > especially if you have limited RAM. <snip> > Hope this helps This was a lot more help than I expected. Thanks a lot! Jona ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
