John Brooks wrote:
> and (sophos) virus
I suppose you are using the Sophie daemon? If not, you really should :)
> We handle approx 250,000 emails a day and I've tested (and slaughtered) the
> virus checking on a Sun ultra 10, 1 Gb memory and 1 300Mhz cpu.
SpamAssassin typically takes a lot more resources than the virus
scanning. Two tips here:
- use RBLs, and maybe the wirehub list too. Nico Erfurth has posted a
sample config for those recently. This reliably stop ~50-70% of
spams at a very low resource cost. SpamAssassin can handle the rest
that gets through the RBL fence.
- limit the spamd facility to messages smaller than ~100kB (YMMV). That
will save a lot of CPU time. Spams are never really large.
> I'm thinking along the lines of a sun fire 280R 2 X 1Ghz cpus plus 4GB memory:
I wish I had such a thing :) If you fine-tune the config, maybe the
Ultra 10 could handle it too ...
regards,
/tom
