Mailscanner filter server to my Mail store " I just canna do it c aptain! "

Drew Weaver drew.weaver at THENAP.COM
Fri Aug 22 20:44:39 IST 2003


It's a RAID 5 array, its not exactly slow or limited.

-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [mailto:raymond at PROLOCATION.NET]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 3:19 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Mailscanner filter server to my Mail store " I just canna do it
c aptain! "

Hi!

> The screwy thing is MailScanner isn't even using any of the power of my
> server. When it freaks out my box is doing like 90% free ram and 2% cpu.

Most likely disk io.

> And also, I have 1 mail store server, and it's a dual xeon 2.8ghz /w 1 gig
> of ram, I shouldn't need a box that big just to do scan & forward, right?

Yes you do. Scanning is very intensive, for both disk io and cpu.

> I was thinking about setting up 2 or 3 similar sized servers, would that
be
> ok?

What specs ? Like the P3 you listed, wont work.

Bye,
Raymond.



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