Re: [cobalt-users] re: cobalt-users digest, Vol 1 #6889 - 15 msgs

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 08:09 am, Greg Hewitt-Long wrote:

> we recently had a serious problem with server load - the first thing
> we did was to remove all blocklists APART from spamcop - it made
> things better, but we still saw timeouts on spamcop.  These appear to
> have gone away for now, but we only have spamcop left as a blocklist.

We still use multiple blocklists, but we use servers with approximately 
four times the processor power and twice the memory of fully loaded 
RaQ4 servers, for in the neighborhood of 20,000 emails daily.

> - we turned off spamassassin for this user (as all mail is simply
> thrown away, why bother determining that it's spam?).

When you do that do you avoid sending emails to spamd?  The reason I ask 
is because with the SolarSpeed Spam Filter, the email would still go to 
spamd, it would just require a higher score to trigger it as spam.

> although we have 768mb and 1024mb on each
> machine, this simply is NOT enough.

Which model RaQ servers are you using?  It's been widely documented here 
and elsewhere that RaQs at least through RaQ4 models can actually run 
more slowly with more than 512 mb of memory, since memory over 512mb 
isn't being cached.

Jeff
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