Ross, Put a second MX server load balanced in place. Also, of the 3000 rules that you have in place can any be optimized? Also, what else is running on this machine? How is it configured? Does the destination mailboxes live on it? Gary
________________________________ From: Ross Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 5/10/2004 6:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spamassassin performance... I'm currently running Spamassassin 2.55 on an enterprise level with roughly 3 to 4 thousand rules on top of SA's default ruleset. I'm not using Bayesian or Pyzor or Razor or anything, just straight SA rules. So here's my question: My system is passing close to 6 messages per second. Needless to say, I've been hitting a glass ceiling in terms of performance. My normal system loadavg ranges between 15 and 30, and most of it is spamd. I'm running redhat 8.0 on a 2.4 Ghz Xeon with a gig of RAM. What can I do to squeeze more performance out of spamd? I've tried upgrading to SA 2.63, but it complains about the 2.55 rules. I've also tried using SA with a milter (spamass-milter), but it didn't seem to make to much of a difference from the normal shell script I currently use. I have to get the loadavg down and have this system capable of passing more mail... What does one do when one has to run Spamassassin with such a! large thru-put? Thanx! R Kramer
