Stephen Ford wrote:
> I'm running Solaris 9 on a dual processor 220R with 2
> gigs of ram and the box is having trouble keeping up
> with spam!?!?

...

> I'm going to add a local dns

That's a necessity - a caching-only server is fine

> Oh, and yes /var/spool/MIMEDefang is swap.

Good
 
> Any sug

Yes

* use spamd to save memory
http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?SpamassassinSpamcSpamd

* AV first
You mentioned you scan for viruses - do you do that before or after scanning 
for spam?
If you scan after, move it to before.  Use clamav-milter on the same box and 
save an expensive MIMEDefang thread.  (Make sure the milter order puts 
clamav-milter first.)

* /tmp swap too
SpamAssassin uses /tmp as a helper directory for all of its plugins.  Make sure 
that's also a RAM disk (I believe that's the default for Solaris anyway?)

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Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com       Software Engineer

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