Questions about PC Requirements

[Ignacio M. Sbampato]

Julian & Miguel,

thanks for your answer. The average size was calculated by other people.
Today i did a little research, and came with a more accurate average size:
60 KB.

The email traffic of the network is splited through different SMTP servers,
so i think that with two or three boxes we'll solve the problem. According
to Miguel's message, a dual-CPU 2.4GHz Xeon with 2GB ram and SCSI disk will
virus-scan over 1,000,000 messages per day.

Maybe with 3 boxes running a similar configuration we'll be fine, right?
It's a little expensive, but the only solution if we want to use
MailScanner+AV to analyze such huge traffic.

What do you think?

Ignacio

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: Questions about PC Requirements


> At 21:29 27/10/2003, you wrote:
> >Ignacio M. Sbampato wrote:
> >>My question is about the requirements of a PC running MailScanner +
1(one)
> >>antivirus engine, if:
> >>
> >>* We're using it over Sendmail.
> >>* The server process 100,000 email messages per hour
> >>* Every attachment has an average size of 150 KB (a lot of ADSL users)
> >>* It's running over Red Hat 9, without any other important processes.
>
> 2.4 million messages per day with that large an average message size will
> require several PC's to do it.
> An average of 150Kb is large, I had an average of about 18kb when testing
> with our mail traffic.
> You'll have to spend some time tuning sendmail as well, you may find Exim
> faster as you'll need several dedicated boxes to do this traffic anyway.
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