SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 05:36:24 +0100
Christian Damm <christian.damm at diewebmaster.at> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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? ;-)

 :-) sorry, typo. Yours. And while we're at definitions - what's small /
medium and what's big :-) ?



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