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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:48:57 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To:        Christian Damm <christian.damm@diewebmaster.at>
Cc:        Vahric MUHTARYAN <vahric@doruk.net.tr>
Subject:   Re: SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server
Message-ID:  <20050224004857.7413d567@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <421C8A60.8010407@diewebmaster.at>
References:  <20050223110037.177AB43D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <421C8A60.8010407@diewebmaster.at>

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:51:28 +0100
Christian Damm <christian.damm@diewebmaster.at> wrote:

>=20
>=20
> Vahric MUHTARYAN schrieb:
> > Hi Everybody ,=20
> > =20
> >             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=
).
> > =DDncoming smtp connections are between 200-400 . We want to run spam s=
oftware
> > on it but machine can't handle it for this reason we seperated machine
> > freebsd+exim+SpamAssassian but on 400 connection machine goes down aver=
age
> > is very high , cpu usage really too high .=20
> > =20
> >             I want to learn Anybody Who have closer or bigger system and
> > using SpamAssassian ?!=20
> > Really this 400 connection simultaneously can be limit for spam softwar=
e ?!
> > I mean Anybody can handle more ?!=20
> > I have to design distributed environment ?!=20
> > =20
> > My Hardware is (for spam)
> >             2 X PIII 1G +  1 GB RAM + 2 DISK RAID 0 SCSI 10000 RPM  =20
>=20
> i use spamassassin only on small-/medium-sized MTA installations (its a=20
> memory/cpu hog i.m.h.o. but i like it) - on all my "bigger" systems i=20
> really prefer dspam (coded in straight C and fast as hell). it is used=20
> in some environments with 350,000 email users and scales really well (if=
=20
> you have the iron and experience to build/maintain such a system/cluster).
>=20
> 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".


--=20
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"




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