MagicWISP Sales wrote:
I just wanted to thank everybody for their help. I had a qtp toaster
running on VMWare on a Quad Pentium 2 machine – let me tell you that
will not work. It was an experiment that got pressed into service as an
emergency. Scan times after killing blacklists and ClamAV on emails of
222k were at 300 seconds, wow. It caused duplicate emails and all kinds
of craziness, even after adding Spamdyke. I used one of Jakes tips on
his video page and cut the scan time down to an average of 110 on the
same email. Quite an improvement but still too high to be usable. I
moved the VM to a temp machine this week, an old E-Machines computer of
all things with an AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor with a whole 1G of
memory, and scan times on the same message fell to 17 seconds. Again –
still too high, but at least the duplicate emails stopped. I just used
another tweak from Jakes video site and the scan time fell to 9 seconds,
with the blacklists and ClamAV scans going again. That will work until
the replacement server gets here next week. If you are using VMWare,
you really need a higher end machine, I think that could be the moral of
this story. The first server that was in use, had a sister sitting
right next to it that ran the QTP, plus webhost, plus a radius server,
and never ever broke a sweat. VMWare is a hog to say the least. Jake’s
video subscription may be the best thing I have found for some quick
instruction on usage of real world tweaks. Jake and Eric are always
willing to help, and have great experiences to provide. Also a shout
out to Brent for fixing the Spamdyke script – it works. Now if I can
figure out how to make the smtp log change at midnight instead of
whenever it wants, I will be happy. Great job all of you guys – you
really are lifesavers!!!
Thanks for sharing.
Before I comment on this, I want to check the facts. This was a Quad
P-II, and not a Quad P-4, right? Just checking. Not that it would make
all that much difference. I'll have some comments to make regarding your
experience with VM guests soon.
FWIW, I just migrated a QMT from one VM guest to another, on the same
host. The former ran nicely (and still does on another host). The new
QMT VM is a pig. I'm not sure what the problem is yet. Top takes 10% of
the cpu on the pig host, while on another guest w/ same kernel, top runs
less than 1%. So somewhere I'm seeing a ~10x performance difference
between 2 guests on the same host. It'll be interesting (to say the
least) to find the reason why. There are some differences between the 3
guests, but not too many. I hope to nail it soon.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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