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| Author: | wiseless [ Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | clamd and amavis optimization |
Hello guys! I just installed amavis/spamassassin/clamav following this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixAmavisNew I have a Linode 768 running Ubuntu 10.4 64-bit, and clamd is taking about 22% of RAM and amavisd (installed amavisd-new) is taking about 12% for each process (master + 2 child). Searched all around and found no tip on optimization for those two beasts I could use so far. Can anyone give a hand? 
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| Author: | obs [ Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:00 am ] |
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switch to 32 bit, 64 bit is wasted on a linode 768. Also consider outsourcing your email, managing an email server is generally a pain. |
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| Author: | Vance [ Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:54 am ] |
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There may be optimizations available, but content-based scanning is always going to be resource intensive. I recommend configuring Postfix with some basic sanity checks. Before adopting that page's settings for reject_rbl_client, look at the policies and history for those blacklists to be sure they are agreeable to you. A lot of blacklists can be overly aggressive (IMO). I have found greylisting to be of immense value in stopping spam. The downside is that you will experience a delay in mail being delivered to you from a new source. The trade-off is worth it to me, but others have their own opinions. Even if you feel like you cannot do away with content-based scanning completely, these methods will reduce the volume of mail that has to be processed by ClamAV and Amavis. |
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| Author: | wiseless [ Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:30 pm ] |
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Thanks for the advice, guys. Simply by switching to 32 bit Ubuntu clamd now uses about 17% (versus 22% on 64-bit) and each amavisd-new process about 7% (versus 12% on 64 bit). Since I'll serve few email accounts, but for 4 diffrerent domains, I don't think I'd bother using, for example, Google Mail unless, for some reason, I feel the need to free more resources to other tasks. Thank you for your time and references pointed.
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