Mailing List Archive: Re: [SPAM?] Re: Memory requirement for SpamAssassin/Postfix/Roundcube/Dovecot stack

If you want to save on memory usage, just having amavis filter out exe
files or exe-like files (screensavers, exes in archives, etc.) is much
more efficient than using clamav. Of course this doesn't filter out
Office macros/OLE, but there's a plugin in SA related to that, I believe.

On 26/05/2022 16:49, Ian Evans wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2022, 10:36 AM Reindl Harald, <h.reindl@thelounge.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Am 26.05.22 um 16:32 schrieb Ian Evans:
> > File under "questions I think I already know the answer to."
> >
> > Looking at moving my site to a new host and I'm pondering
> splitting my
> > web/email servers which have always shared the same server.
> >
> > Our email server is five accounts. Just me and the missus. A big
> day is
> > receiving 200 emails.
> >
> > Is it safe to assume that a $5/mth 1gig memory account will
> laugh at the
> > resources needed to run
> a SpamAssassin/Postfix/Roundcube/Dovecot/Nginx
> > stack and not ever break a sweat?
>
> when you add clamav later it will be clamav who laughs about 1 GB
> memory
> after it has sucked it completly
>
>
> Just looked at clamav's memory usage. Ouch. :)
>

>> Am 26.05.22 um 16:32 schrieb Ian Evans:
>> > File under "questions I think I already know the answer to."
>> >
>> > Looking at moving my site to a new host and I'm pondering splitting
>> > my web/email servers which have always shared the same server.
>> >
>> > Our email server is five accounts. Just me and the missus. A big
>> > day is receiving 200 emails.
>> >
>> > Is it safe to assume that a $5/mth 1gig memory account will laugh at
>> > the resources needed to run
>> > a?SpamAssassin/Postfix/Roundcube/Dovecot/Nginx stack and not ever
>> > break a sweat?

>>On Thu, May 26, 2022, 10:36 AM Reindl Harald,
>><h.reindl@thelounge.net> wrote:
>> when you add clamav later it will be clamav who laughs about 1 GB
>> memory
>> after it has sucked it completly

>On 26/05/2022 16:49, Ian Evans wrote:
>>Just looked at clamav's memory usage. Ouch. :)

On 26.05.22 17:00, Bert Van de Poel wrote:
>If you want to save on memory usage, just having amavis filter out exe
>files or exe-like files (screensavers, exes in archives, etc.) is much
>more efficient than using clamav. Of course this doesn't filter out
>Office macros/OLE, but there's a plugin in SA related to that, I
>believe.

there are also many signatures for JS and other kinds of malicious content
in clamav...

however, with clamav, 2G of RAM is not enough. Especially when using
ConcurrentDatabaseReload (default on)

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