Try running mimedefang instead of spamd. I also run mimedefang, and it should easily scale up to 300k messages with your hardware. The tmpfs volume on mimedefang appears to speed things up. Procmail does not scale.
Sylvain Robitaille said: > On Mon, 10 May 2004, Ross Kramer wrote: > >> 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? > > Is the system swapping at all? Look at the "so" column in the output of > vmstat (get it to produce at least a few timed lines of output, > otherwise what you're looking it will be an overall reading since the > time the system was last booted). If you see regular swap activity, > you'll definitely gain performance from adding memory: Your processes > will complete much sooner, and this will in turn reduce the load average > on the system, which will result in more CPU time available for those > same processes. > > My own mail servers here are dual 2.4 Ghz Xeons, with 4-8GB of RAM > (depending on wether we're talking about a primary or secondary mail > exchanger), running Slackware-9.1 with kernel upgrades and locally > installed Sendmail-8.12.10, MimeDefang-2.35, and SpamAssassin-2.60 for > mail processing. -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana
