On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 17:27 -0500, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:
> > > > > 512 MB Ram
> > > >
> > > > Ouch -- that server could go with some RAM, don't you think? No hard
> > > > numbers, but given your 10k+ messages a day, I guess that's about the
> > > > bare minimum.
> > > >
> > > > Oh, you mentioned yesterday running ClamAV, too. Yes, that is low. Hope
> > > > you don't hit swap yet.
> > >
> > > For more than 10000 emails a day how much memory should be the server?
> > > as one can calculate the amount of memory needed?
> >
> > That depends on mail spikes, processing times, how you call SA, other
> > applications (like ClamAV), and whether or not you hit swap. You didn't
> > answer that.
>
> This server has just installed SpamAssassin and is called from another
> server using Simscan (With Qmail + Vpopmail + ClamAV).
>From your original post:
user_scores_dsn DBI:mysql:spamassassin:localhost
user_awl_dsn DBI:mysql:spamassassin:localhost
bayes_sql_dsn DBI:mysql:spamassassin:localhost
So you ARE running an SQL server on this very host.
> The average hourly emails scanned is approximately 500 but I imagine
> it must be some hours where more emails coming.
>
> Think increasing to 2 GB of RAM is enough?
Probably, yes. But yet again, it depends on what you are running on that
server, and how severely it hits swap. As Jason said, *you* as a
sysadmin must decide about this.
> Voy analizar cada entrada de whitelist_from
Pardon? That doesn't parse here... ;)
> > > > Maybe your Bayes is severely mis-trained? Or maybe you need that to
> > > > counter the whitelist_from for pills spam pretending to be sent from
> > > > your own domain. The score sure hints at that...
> > >
> > > As if well trained Bayes?
> >
> > Sorry, don't get that.
>
> I meant if there a way to know if this learning Bayes correctly.
Check your BAYES_xx hits for spam and ham.
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