Hi.
I was wondering if I could take a straw poll of sorts. We're having some trouble with SA in terms of loading down the system it's on.
May I respectfully ask some of you what kind of hardware you run (Processor and RAM) compared to how many concurrent SA processes you allow?
We run a seaprate server for SA but it still seems to use more CPU than it should. I have 2.63 installed and running.
Thanks Frank
I'm running a dual P-II 450 box with 512MB RAM, 9GB SCSI HD. Bayes DB is shared, unfortunately. I've got network tests on, Razor2, DCC, some extra RBLs, plus extra rulesets (all of Jennifer's rules, BigEvil, evilnumbers and antidrug). The box only runs spamd, the main SMTP server connects over the network. No unnecessary processes are running on this box.
Currently I've got --max-children set to 27. The server processes around 23K messages per day.
I'm going to be setting up a redundant server with a similar config soon. This server handles the overall load alright, but sudden floods of mail (like when one of my amavis-running MX boxes has trophie fail to restart... argh!) can kill the box. Plus then I'll have some redundancy, and room to grow.
I'm *just* starting to see the machine get processor-bound, and only on heavy mail periods. Otherwise, it's just a matter of loading up with enough RAM to have parallel spamd processes running.
--Rich
