What sort of mail load do you have? If its any help, some stats from here:
Between 1,500 and 5000 messages per hour at around 2Gb total per day SA + SpamCop URI + MyRulesDeJour updates, Qmail, Qmail-Scanner + Sophos + Sophie (Sophie made a huge difference, so daemonize your AV checker if you have one) all hand compiled and running under daemontools and tcpserver HP Proliant 2 x 2.8Ghz, 2Gb RAM. Suse 9.something This box also does a fair amount of web serving, is the primary DNS server, Samba for several 100 clients, etc etc and it's not really having a hard time. Spamd currently is 87 Mb in size - it shrank dramatically when I moved over to using SpamCop URI instead of bigevil. The load averages dropped considerably when I installed Sophie to front Sophos. Mail delay is of the order of a second or two in total, looking back through the spamd log it normally takes less than a second to do the full checks. Cheers Jon >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/19/04 04:38pm >>> At times our server takes quite a while to process incoming email - it's not at all unusual for an email to take a couple of hours or more to get through the system from the time it hits the server. Local email may take as much as 5 minutes. I'm just wondering if an increase in RAM on the server might help with this. There's definitely been a slowdown since we installed spamassassin. Our server is running RedHat Linux 8.09, with 2gb of RAM - we're running sendmail 8.13.
