Re: Clamav replacement for FreeBSD+postfix?

At 03:08 PM 2/19/2007, Francisco Reyes wrote:
Mike Tancsa writes:

Great. That sound promissing.
Is this with i386 or amd64?
i386. clamav, spamassassin/mimedefang are all slower on amd64

Thanks for the feedback.
How much memory on your machine(s)?


We have 7 machines doing spam and virus scanning for a number of client machines. We have 2G of RAM per machine which is enough so things do not swap.

Part of the reason I was thinking amd64 is because the servers have 4GB.
Doesn't one need PAE at 4GB and above?


Why do you need so much per server to do spam/virus scanning ? If anything, leave the 4G inside but just boot with i386. It will waste a bit, but I am guessing better than using PAE

e.g. here is one such 4G server we have.

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (2210.20-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20fb1 Stepping = 1
Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
Features2=0x1<SSE3>
AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
AMD Features2=0x3<LAHF,CMP>
Cores per package: 2
real memory = 3756916736 (3582 MB)
avail memory = 3677523968 (3507 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <Nvidia AWRDACPI>


We get our machines installed with FreeBSD and the vendor has been putting PAE on machines with 4GB, but I am wondering if it is even needed.

I have never used (nor trusted) PAE.


---Mike

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