Mailscanner Disk Layout - best practice for performance?

<[email protected]> Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:42:37 -0500
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We're running a beta testing MailScanner with Mailwatch  and postfix using
Ubuntu 24  LTS on an  AWS  M6a.xlarge instance with 16G ram. 

 

Before going live, I want to split out the disks for best performance.

Where do you see the highest disk utilization?

 

With 16G ram I could squeak out a small ramdisk. Also have the option to go
to provisioned IOPS although that gets expensive fast. 

 

 

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

 

 

MailWatch Version: 1.2.23

Operating System Version: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Postfix Version: 3.8.6

MailScanner Version: 5.5.3

ClamAV Version: 1.4.3

SpamAssassin Version: 4.0.0

PHP Version: 8.3.6

MySQL Version: 10.11.13-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

GeoIP Database Version: No database downloaded

 


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class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt'>We&#8217;re running a =
beta testing MailScanner with Mailwatch &nbsp;and postfix using Ubuntu =
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performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
style=3D'font-size:11.0pt'>Where do you see the highest disk =
utilization?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
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class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt'>With 16G ram I could =
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class=3DMsoNormal><span style=3D'font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks for any =
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