Re: You can start saving now

[Michael Loftis <mloftis@modwest.com>]

128M?  My firewall has more than that.  My personal firewall... A 
P120....or 133...I honestly don't remember.  But anyway who's bright idea 
was that?  You can get ahold of 256M for like $100 or less, usually less.

128M hasn't been enough for a server, especially a heavily used one, for a 
loooong time, long before the Duron came out.

--On Sunday, May 23, 2004 20:05 -0400 Dale E Martin 
<dmartin@cliftonlabs.com> wrote:

> > You really need a serious amount of mail for SA to bog down.  As you all
> > realized, mail volume is relative.
>
> Even with just a few thousand mails a day, I have had a Duron 1GHz machine
> (with 128M) come to a crawl due to spamassassin in the past.  If there was
> any kind of outage then when the mail started coming back in the machine
> would thrash badly and the load would skyrocket, and this loop would
> continue.
>
> We now throttle the mail based on the load, limit incoming connections,
> limit forked SAs, limit # of mails per connection, etc and the machine
> does OK.  Without SA this machine would be able to handle at least 10X
> the mail volume.  (I hate spam, and this is one of the reasons - it costs
> real money!)  I do realize that the real solution is more RAM and we're
> moving that direction.
>
> Take care,
>      Dale
> --
> Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc.
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Michael Loftis
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