From: mouss (mlist.onlyfree.fr)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2007 - 04:24:51 CST

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Rocco Scappatura wrote:
>
> I read README.postfix and The book of Postfix. The number is a limit on
> the number of content filter that runs simultaneously. But I really
> don't understand why is set in the configuration of the appliance.
>
> Indeed I don't know why the trendmicro ha set this limit on the content
> filter. If I change it from 70 to '-' (ie: disabling the limit), could I
> risk that the appliance is too loaded (or go in chrisis or something
> else of catastrophic)?
>

don't disable the limit. content filtering is an expensive process, and
you don't want to overload your system with too much simultaneous
filtering.

you'll need to find the bottleneck by inspecting the message flow and
seeing where it slows down. That will tell you if you are passing too
many messages to the filter.

> Or should I conclude that the appliance is unable to manage a traffic
> such that currently I have?

not necessarily. while there is a limit that depends on the system
capacity, you need to tune your system to reach (approach) this limit.

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