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!!!
