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Date:      Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:56:54 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Vahric MUHTARYAN <vahric@doruk.net.tr>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server
Message-ID:  <421C99B6.1040300@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050223110037.177AB43D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20050223110037.177AB43D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
> 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).
> İncoming 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   

With spamassassin, you can set the spamd machine (the machine that does the spam processing) to be another machine, or machines actually.  I have my main mail server to all the mail related work, and mail passes through spamc (on the main mail server) which calls spamd (located on a spam machine, which could easily be many machines in a round robin list), to keep load down on the main server, specially when users are running the learning tools (which we allow each user individual spam bayes db's).  Plus, you can work in a little failover stuff with virtual IP's and such for redundancy.

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.
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