Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-04 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Matt schrieb: [...] Cpu(s): 10.1% us, 3.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 25.4% id, 61.0% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.0% si 61% wa? That's a true indicator for IO-problems. [...] Running bind on server and from I have heard bind does not create a significant system load. If you run it as a caching nameserver, it should

Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-04 Thread Matt
Actually, so far you failed to state a problem. Load is something like number of processes waiting to be processed and I have seen servers with load-values higher thann 1000 which still reacted faster than my laptop. Load is not a problem. It might indicate a problem, but load itself is

Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-03 Thread Martin.Hepworth
@exim.org Subject: [exim] Speeding Up Exim I just got a call from someone wanting to be able to send 50k email messages a second. Most of it in bursts of a few seconds long. It has to do with some kind of gaming application. I'm just trying to picture in my mind what kind of hardware could do

Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-03 Thread ROGERS Richard
Martin.Hepworth wrote: Matt Quickest (but not cheapest!) way is to get Spamassassin off the email email onto a dedicated box. SA is a real CPU hog. before doing that, make sure you're only running SpamAssassin against thhose messages you can't reject first by other means. SpamAssassin is

Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-03 Thread Matt
http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin contains some tuning tips... Its a bit soon to tell but I think this helped a bunch. If running the bayes database in a file (DB_File) consider adding bayes_learn_to_journal 1 to spam.assassin.prefs.conf

Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-02 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Am Samstag, den 01.03.2008, 12:48 -0600 schrieb Matt: [...] Hardware is: AMD64 Dualcore 3800+ just updated to 5600+ 4Gbyte DDR2 SATA2 500GB drive Normally load average is like 8 or less but at peak times I am seeing it spike to like 100 area. Upgrading the CPU gained very little. I am

[exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-01 Thread Matt
I just got a call from someone wanting to be able to send 50k email messages a second. Most of it in bursts of a few seconds long. It has to do with some kind of gaming application. I'm just trying to picture in my mind what kind of hardware could do that. I have an Directadmin based

Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-01 Thread Clemens Koller
Hello, Matt! Matt wrote: I wander if the SATA feature of NCQ would speed the disk I/O up but there is likely no easy way to upgrade CentOS 4.x to do that. AFAICT CentOS 4.5 kernel was originally based on 2.6.9. A long time has passed since then and the 2.6.21/2.6.22 kernels where the new

Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-01 Thread Matt
I wander if the SATA feature of NCQ would speed the disk I/O up but there is likely no easy way to upgrade CentOS 4.x to do that. AFAICT CentOS 4.5 kernel was originally based on 2.6.9. A long time has passed since then and the 2.6.21/2.6.22 kernels where the new libata based disk

Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-01 Thread Brian austin
Matt wrote: I wander if the SATA feature of NCQ would speed the disk I/O up but there is likely no easy way to upgrade CentOS 4.x to do that. AFAICT CentOS 4.5 kernel was originally based on 2.6.9. A long time ... Anyway. I'd give it a shot if you have some minutes of downtime.

Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim

2008-03-01 Thread Clemens Koller
Matt schrieb: I wander if the SATA feature of NCQ would speed the disk I/O up but there is likely no easy way to upgrade CentOS 4.x to do that. AFAICT CentOS 4.5 kernel was originally based on 2.6.9. A long time has passed since then and the 2.6.21/2.6.22 kernels where the new libata based