[volunteers] System was near RAM exhaustion

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:49:24PM -0700:

> Downthread of my September 2007 post, responding to Mark Weisler:
> 
>   > Do we need more memory for the old server?  [Yeah, yeah, I was a 
>   > manager...  ;.]
> 
>   No, not really.
> 
>   My own server gets by extremely reliably with _half_ as much RAM as the
>   legacy www.svlug.org server has, and the MTA / antispam setup is
>   remarkably similar, except that the software in question consists of
>   more-mature versions, with much, much more emphasis on intercepting spam
>   in the front-end of Exim4, the C-based, fast, small rulesets, before
>   handing off mail streams that survive those tests to (slow, bloated)
>   SpamAssassin (spamd).  _And_ those more-mature software versions aren't
>   wacked-out 2002-era betaware cobbled together by Marc.

I haven't seen this idea brought up before: what
about adding a dedicated spamd machine?  It seems like
there is available hardware -- if there's something
that will accept lots of RAM, well, lists.svlug.org
seems to have two interfaces...

00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)

...but one just isn't configured.  So make it a
private interface for connecting to the spamd box.

Is there space for another system on the rack?

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