SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server

[Christian Damm]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu schrieb:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:51:28 +0100
> Christian Damm <christian.damm at diewebmaster.at> wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>Vahric MUHTARYAN schrieb:
>>
>>>Hi Everybody , 
>>> 
>>>            Really I don't know can I say a big mail server which have
>>>30,000 mailbox on it 1200+ simultaneously connections (pop,smtp,webmail).
>>>Ýncoming smtp connections are between 200-400 . We want to run spam software
>>>on it but machine can't handle it for this reason we seperated machine
>>>freebsd+exim+SpamAssassian but on 400 connection machine goes down average
>>>is very high , cpu usage really too high . 
>>> 
>>>            I want to learn Anybody Who have closer or bigger system and
>>>using SpamAssassian ?! 
>>>Really this 400 connection simultaneously can be limit for spam software ?!
>>>I mean Anybody can handle more ?! 
>>>I have to design distributed environment ?! 
>>> 
>>>My Hardware is (for spam)
>>>            2 X PIII 1G +  1 GB RAM + 2 DISK RAID 0 SCSI 10000 RPM   
>>
>>i use spamassassin only on small-/medium-sized MTA installations (its a 
>>memory/cpu hog i.m.h.o. but i like it) - on all my "bigger" systems i 
>>really prefer dspam (coded in straight C and fast as hell). it is used 
>>in some environments with 350,000 email users and scales really well (if 
>>you have the iron and experience to build/maintain such a system/cluster).
>>
>>http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/
> 
> 
> Also in ports: mail/dspam and mail/dspam-devel (updates for both in not
> committed PRs).
> 
> I'm currently playing with a setup like OP's. I'm interested in knowing
> our definition of "iron and experience to build/maintain such a
> system/cluster".

your definition? - or my definition? ;-)

> 
> 

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