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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:10:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      Scott Blaydes <sblaydes@rnetinc.net>
To:        Devdas Bhagat <devdas@worldgatein.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail and virus checking
Message-ID:  <20020208110825.G88900-100000@falken.reliable-net.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020208212420.B49605@rivendell.worldgatein.net>

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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


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