Has anyone off-loaded spamassassin to a secondary machine?
I have a server I'm trialling NuOnce's implementation of SpamAssassin
(http://www.spamassassin.org) and I like the results - however, the server
load is amazing (not so much the base product, but I have added 40,000
lines of custom rules in the local.cf). Each spamd grabs up to 78Mb of
RAM - so I'm thinking of off-loading the tasks undertaken by SpamAssassin
to a secondary machine whose ONLY task it to run spamassassin and razor -
has anyone done this?
I'm thinking that I'll probably use or build a custom machine for this
task, something cheap and cheerful, perhaps a colomachines.com box,
perhaps a machine using AMD processors I have around - possibly building
several machines using even lower specs and attempting to round-robin them
if that's possible.
I'd be interested in the changes to the spamassassin config files here on
the RAQs, and experiences of a choice of OS for the separate box - ie,
linux/BSD etc.