Questions about PC Requirements

[greyhair]

 Just my humble opinion, but you may want to look into
Redhat  ES (basic $350) if you are looking into Redhat
for the simple reason that you will get updates for longer
than 12 months. A bit more effort is put into optimsing the
kernel and other packages, too.
Also, have you thought about the AMD 64bit opteron
chip, if you are going to continue down the RedHat trail?
(has anyone?)

greyhair.

PS:  wow, ~13 mbit/sec of pure mail.  That sure dwarfs my
poor little T1!!

Ignacio M. Sbampato wrote:

>Julian & Miguel,
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>What do you think?
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>Ignacio
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>----- 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
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>>At 21:29 27/10/2003, you wrote:
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>>>Ignacio M. Sbampato wrote:
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>>>>My question is about the requirements of a PC running MailScanner +
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>>>>antivirus engine, if:
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>>>>* 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.
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>>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.
>>--
>>Julian Field
>>www.MailScanner.info
>>Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
>>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>>PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC  7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
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