imap scalability

[Jules Agee]

Earl R Shannon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would in addition recommend that you run your MTA
> on a seperate machine(s). If you do use some form of
> spam/virus filtering keeping it off the IMAP/POP servers
> would probably leave you in a better position, both in
> terms of performance and management.

Seconded, especially if you use SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin works really 
well for us, but it is a serious memory hog at 17-20MB *per process*, 
plus 5-8MB shared memory. You won't want to run anything else that's 
sensitive to RAM consumption on a box that's running SA.

-- 
Jules Agee
System Administrator
Pacific Coast Feather Co.
julesa at pcf.com      x284
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