DarkBen, just to know about hardware limits, do you have any ideas on how many mails are you processing per day? Thanks for the info.
Stats of Postfix : 19008 mails during last 24 h ... I have an ISPConfig 2.1.1 on Debian Sarge 3.1 Proc : athlon XP 3000+ Memory : 512 DDR
Hm, you have that much traffic, and so many users & still you can't afford better hardware? 2-3-4 GB's of RAM? Hm...
Why switch to bigger hardware if the setup works for him? I guess he has his server rented from a server hosting provider and often you can not add more ram to these servers without changing the complete server and reinstall everything.
I changed my server and all is ok now. My load average is 0.61 today My cpu is a P4 3 Gz with 1 Go memory ddr I explained that in this post : http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2448
Hi guys, since we're in the topic of server load now, my server load is consistently above 2.... This is a SMP rig. top - 18:50:20 up 2 days, 16:49, 1 user, load average: 4.45, 5.89, 6.12 8896 spam 25 0 25628 19m 996 R 64 2.5 0:02.55 clamscan 8919 spam 25 0 20308 15m 996 R 52 2.0 0:01.73 clamscan 8878 master 25 0 25308 19m 996 R 47 2.5 0:02.75 clamscan 8933 master 21 0 25252 20m 2448 S 29 2.7 0:00.87 spamassassin 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:03.18 migration/1 39 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.54 pdflush Any idea wad's wrong?
You should consider to switch to clamd: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12864&highlight=clamd
I switch to clamdscan too and my load average is under 1 now ! http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13385
