[Cialug] Mailfiltering

[Mark Hesseltine]

I've noticed SA gets a little hungry if you don't run the spamc
client. There's also a setting in the config file about concurrent
clients, that I throttled back (but I have a small office, with little
traffic).

On 11/9/05, David Champion <dave at visionary.com> wrote:
> I was running for a while on a temporary mail server - a p3-300 with an
> IDE disk and 128mb ram - while I rebuilt the main one. I had to disable
> spamassassin because it was absolutely killing that box - like the load
> average would hit 30.
>
> The current mail server is a xeon 2.8ghz with 1gb ram and a sata raid.
> Spamassassin doesn't even show up on the load average radar.
>
> There are options to run spamassassin to fork a process each time it's
> needed, or to run as a daemon, that make a big difference too.
>
> -dc
>
> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> > A question on SpamAssassin ... have you ever noticed it being a resource
> > hog? One server I worked with was extremely slowed down by SA.  Should
> > it be run on a separate box or what should the minimum specs be for a
> > box running email plus these filters?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> > On Nov 9, 2005, at 10:49, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> >
> >> Yup, SA will tie into amavis pretty easy, and clamav ties into amavis
> >> pretty easy too.
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 10:47 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> >>
> >>> K, I assume hooking up SpamAssassin works in a similar manner then?
> >>>
> >>> --Tony
>
>
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