On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 09:27, Rick DeNatale wrote: > I've been running SA on my home workstation for almost a year now, and I > love it. > > Except... occasionally when a lot of mail comes in, my workstation seems > to lose interest in what I'm doing, and telnetting in from another > machine and running top indicates that spamd is getting most of the CPU > cycles. > > So I'm thinking about offloading at least some of my mail processing to > another machine. I've got a 386 based machine which I've build with RH > 9 which I called clavin, my workstation is named frodo and also runs > RH9. I'm thinking about moving both of these to Fedora core, but that's > another topic. > > The question which is most relevant to this list, is how do I move/copy > the SA installation from frodo to clavin and preserve the bayes > learning? > > My second question is a little less relevant but I suspect that this > might be a good audience. How should I distribute my mail processing. > > Here's what I'm running on frodo now: > > fetchmail runs as a cron job and gets isp mail from my account and my > wife's account every 10 minutes. fetchmailrc passes it through spamc. > > Spamassassin 2.63 is running on Frodo. > > I'm also running sendmail, which forwards outgoing mail via my ISP, and > also processes incoming mail for this domain (denhaven2.homeip.net). I > was driven to setting up a separate mail server which I use for mailing > list subscriptions and the like after I found that my ISP was overusing > blacklists which was preventing mail from certain lists from arriving. > > Frodo is an smp 686 machine, whereas clavin is a 386 (Cyrix) machine. > > Is my best bet to just run spamd on clavin, and leave everything else > back on frodo? Spamc does support this via the -host arg doesn't it? > > I think this might be the safest from the perspective of locking my mail > spools, or should I look at putting more mail functions on clavin? If > so what should I look out for?
You get enough mail that it affects the performance of an SMP 686 based machine. Do you really think the old 386 will have enough horsepower to make an effective replacement? (Not a flame, just an observation.) Your 386 can hold, what, maybe 32 Megs of memory MAX? You'll be lucky if that 386 doesn't death spiral into swap just from the fear of running SA. Of course, it'll probably be fun to watch. <G> -- Don Krause
