Am Sonntag, 20. April 2008 22:51 schrieb Christoph Petersen:
> Hi guys,
>
> some days ago I started deploying spamassassin in a load balanced
> environment (though no real lb but round robin DNS lb with spamc's -d
> switch). When I watch the logs it's sometimes with peaks that one server =
is
> under heavy load > 90 spamd childs and the other very low.
>
> Maybe it's a good idea to create something like a spamc deamon wich can
> distribute the load better among the childs so that both systems are bett=
er
> used.
>
> Feedback is welcome - maybe I'm on a very wrong train here but spam is n=
ot
> getting less..
>
> BR
> Christoph

Real good loadbalancer is Linux Virtual Server (LVS,=20
www.linuxvirtualserver.org). Try localhost option to distribute load to loc=
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node AND use Linux-HA (heartbeat) for high availabliliy.

Hint: ldirectord as a resource in Linux-HA version 2. Also use pingd to che=
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availability of the nodes inside heartbeat.

Sounds difficult to set up, but when you get used to it it is quite simple,=
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works good and ist VERY scalable.

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