Yes, no swap because it runs under a flash card.
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 08:18:50 John Hardin wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 10:21 +0200, Henrik K wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 03:58:40PM -0800, John Hardin wrote: > > > You should be able to run base SA, a bayes database (you'll probably > > > want to avoid autolearning) and *some* custom rules. You might not be > > > able to use the larger custom rules like the Sought sets - try them and > > > see. > > > > Having some custom rules makes little difference. SA base code is huge. > > Sought is small, we are talking about one or two MBs. This advice comes > > from the age of *large* rules like blacklist.cf. > > True. I am running both Sought rulesets myself. Sorry, I wrote that bit > too quickly, and had blacklist.cf in the back of my mind. > > > Bayes has little effect on memory. If you use it as flat BerkeleyDB file, > > only thing it might "take" is OS disk cache. And if it's on flash, access > > should be very fast. I don't see anything preventing autolearning. > > We don't have any information on available disk, so I was assuming it > was limited. > > > I've run full SA, ClamAV, MySQL, named, websites etc on 256MB. You do > > need swap for it. If you have a filesystem, then you can create a swap > > file on it. > > "no swap" was specified, which also suggests limited disk. > > > Of course you cannot expect it to perform miracles. You can have one or > > two concurrent scans at maximum. > > And I forgot to mention that as well; when I was running with 192MB I > had SA limited to one concurrent scan. It worked, just rather slowly. > Fortunately my email volume is fairly low.
