From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 8 8:11: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from falken.reliable-net.net (falken.reliable-net.net [65.88.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716DA37B419 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:11:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by falken.reliable-net.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g18GAo290084; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:10:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sblaydes@rnetinc.net) Received: from localhost (sblaydes@localhost) by falken.reliable-net.net (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with ESMTP id g18GATq89894; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:10:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sblaydes@rnetinc.net) X-Authentication-Warning: falken.reliable-net.net: sblaydes owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:10:29 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Blaydes X-X-Sender: sblaydes@falken.reliable-net.net To: Devdas Bhagat Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail and virus checking In-Reply-To: <20020208212420.B49605@rivendell.worldgatein.net> Message-ID: <20020208110825.G88900-100000@falken.reliable-net.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 08/02/02 10:19 -0500, Scott Blaydes wrote: > > Has anyone found any good virus scanning software/plug-ins for sendmail? > > I am currently running amavis-perl v11, but it is causing my load to > > skyrocket at time due to the overhead of calling perl multiple times. > > > > Has anyone tried amavisd to see if it works well? > I use amavisd and it works quite well. Lower overhead, until I throw ~ > 60 simultaneous mails at it (very low end box, and it does other things > as well, lots of them). It runs trendmicro's filescan, on RH 7.1 > > Devdas Bhagat > Had you ever ran amavis-perl? If so, does the amavisd run a lower load? I have a dual 1g P3 box with 1gb ram and a raid5 of 5 80mb/s Hard drives and I still get high loads (5+) on this box when it starts getting hit hard by mail. Scott Blaydes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message