Stupid spam and virus protection dominates resources
After discovering a few failed break-in attempts in my server logs earlier yesterday, I’ve been poking around and making sure that my security is up to snuff.
One of the things I inspected was the list of running processes. I noticed something there—processes related to spam and virus protection occupy 283,792 kB of memory. That’s a little more than 277 MB! On a server with 256 MB of RAM and 750 MB of swap, that’s a whole lot of memory (more than two-thirds of available!) dedicated to keeping unethical peoples’ junk out of my email inbox.
brent:
what other things does that server do? it’s usually best to have one box just for filtering- junk filtering can get messy if it’s not the only thing on the machine.
30 October 2007, 7:19 pmColin Dean:
Well, it runs everything: web, mail, filtering, database, ssh, and at times murmur, a very efficient voip server. I hope to branch out some tasks once bioslevel.com starts making some money, if ever, or I get a higher-paying job.
30 October 2007, 11:32 pmSean:
We’re getting there =(
31 October 2007, 12:59 am