128M hasn't been enough for a server, especially a heavily used one, for a loooong time, long before the Duron came out.
--On Sunday, May 23, 2004 20:05 -0400 Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You really need a serious amount of mail for SA to bog down. As you all realized, mail volume is relative.
Even with just a few thousand mails a day, I have had a Duron 1GHz machine (with 128M) come to a crawl due to spamassassin in the past. If there was any kind of outage then when the mail started coming back in the machine would thrash badly and the load would skyrocket, and this loop would continue.
We now throttle the mail based on the load, limit incoming connections, limit forked SAs, limit # of mails per connection, etc and the machine does OK. Without SA this machine would be able to handle at least 10X the mail volume. (I hate spam, and this is one of the reasons - it costs real money!) I do realize that the real solution is more RAM and we're moving that direction.
Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Computer Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cliftonlabs.com pgp key available
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