Maximun Throughput

[Ken Anderson (Pacific Internet)]

Your OS, Filesystem, MTA of choice, and _configuration_ would also be an
important factor. We use sendmail, MailScanner/SA/rules_du_jour, DCCD,
rbldnsd and bind, and can squeeze about 400-500k messages/day through
one dual Xeon 2ghz machine (redhat 7.3) with 2gb RAM without swapping or
any uncomfortable delays during peak hours.

I believe Julian's performance mark is at the high end of performance,
and it might be overly optimistic to expect this to be the case for
normal ISP traffic.

Ken A

Julian Field wrote:

> A dual-Xeon 2.8GHz box can do up to about 1.5 million messages per day.
> Needs 2GB RAM and a bit of disk for storing the mail queues.
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> At 10:21 16/04/2004, you wrote:
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>> My ISP doesn't currently offer antivirus/ spam scanning as 'standard'
>> for their users (Not that I care as I use MS at home) but I have
>> recently been involved in a discussion regarding adding this capability
>> using MailScanner. They have concerns about it's capacity and have
>> previously rejected SpamAssassin (In spamd mode) as not being able to
>> keep up with their mail queues.
>>
>> I was wondering what people's maximum through puts are. My ISP uses,
>> these days, high end Intel boxes having moved from Sparc (Although I
>> have no idea of spec so any pointers as to suggested specs would be
>> handy).
>>
>> Your thoughts, as ever, much appreciated.
>>
>> Drew
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