[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

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

At 11:11 AM 4/13/2004, you wrote:

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.
I'm building dedicated spamassassin machines as we speak... 2.8ghz p4 machines for all initial email spam/virus filtering. We'll then turn off ALL spam filtering on the RAQs, and just do a final virus scan with a DIFFERENT mailscanner - probably clamAV. 



> - 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.



good point - I'm not sure, but it's made a difference at the moment.



> 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.



raq3i machines with 500mhz processors running raq4i ISO loads from Gerald.



Jeff
--
Jeff Lasman, nobaloney.net, P. O. Box 52672, Riverside, CA  92517 US
Professional Internet Services & Support / Consulting / Colocation
Our blists address used on lists is for list email only
Phone +1 909 324-9706, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";

_____________________________________
cobalt-users mailing list
cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe/unsubscribe, or to SEARCH THE ARCHIVES, go to:
http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-users