Re: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-18 Thread Justin Mason
Charlie Watts said: > If we can't get RMS, we can just send the .mp3 of him singing. They'll > cave in, I'm sure ... Oh my ghod, the GNU Song. Anything but that! ;) --j. ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforg

RE: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-18 Thread Charlie Watts
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Yes, it was the network accesses. We've re-done Razor in-house anyway > (sorry, but we can't release that code, which is a shame because it > kicks razor's butt - does n-way replication and multi-tiered servers), > and will be removing all the DNS check

RE: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-18 Thread Matt Sergeant
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Matt Sergeant said: > > > > Basically a spam-check may take up to 10 seconds per mail, so > > > sendmail should run only a certain number of concurrent deliveries > > > (20 or so?) and wait for them to complete

Re: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-17 Thread Justin Mason
Matt Sergeant said: > > Basically a spam-check may take up to 10 seconds per mail, so > > sendmail should run only a certain number of concurrent deliveries > > (20 or so?) and wait for them to complete before spawning more. > > 10 seconds is way too long for us. We aim to get that down to abou

RE: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-17 Thread Craig Hughes
Gotta love it when you sign the contract to be the exclusive email provider for China. C On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 01:32, Matt Sergeant wrote: [1] Yes, 1 billion. Currently we're pushing about 7 million, but we're ramping up very fast indeed.

RE: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-17 Thread Matt Sergeant
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I'm not a sendmail expert, but IMO the problem is the number of > concurrent deliveries sendmail is allowing. > > Basically a spam-check may take up to 10 seconds per mail, so > sendmail should run only a certa

RE: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-17 Thread Matt Sergeant
> -Original Message- > From: brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Running SA 1.5 / SPAMD -u nobody -d on a machine that accepts > 88k mails > per day. > > > Today was the big test, and there was a huge failure. The > issue is that I > get so many procmail processes opening that the CP

Re: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-16 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Justin Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I get on an average 350 open procmail processes at any one time. 'ps ax > > |grep proc | wc -l" > > I need to figure out how to scale this. The machine is a PIII with 512 > > megs in Raid 5 configuration. Ugh. Just a thought, but a more effecient s

Re: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-16 Thread Justin Mason
brad said: > Running SA 1.5 / SPAMD -u nobody -d on a machine that accepts 88k mails > per day. > Today was the big test, and there was a huge failure. The issue is that I > get so many procmail processes opening that the CPU average on the machine > pegs and the load average then causes sendma