Sergio Devojno Bruder
bruder@haxent.com.br
Fri Aug 27 19:25:32 UTC 2004
Vernon Schryver escreveu: > (....) > > Dccd is a memory pig. The common database of bulk mail wants at least > 750 MByte. 2 million local requests/day would want another 500 MByte. > Dccd tries not to use more than 50% of RAM, but wants to all > of /var/dcc/dcc_db.hash and most of /var/dcc/dcc_db in RAM. > Thus a system handling more than 2-3 M requests/day wants more than > 1 GByte of RAM. Ok. We have 1GB of RAM, we just upgraded it to 1.5GB for now, a new box with 3GB was ordered. That upgrade to 1.5GB solved it for our use now, the full deploy will wait for the 3GB box. > I should also mention that some flavors of UNIX do not deal gracefully > with the large mmap() areas used by dccd. For example, I've seen some > versions of Linux insist on swapping, and in the worst possible, least > necessary ways. We are indeed using 80*86 with linux, but that box isnt touching swap. > Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com -- Sergio Devojno Bruder <bruder@haxent.com.br> http://haxent.com.br 41 362-5930, 41 9127-6620
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