System capacity

[Dave Filchak]

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It's not that I THOUGHT I was under powered but when I saw that entry in
the MAQ it sort of surprised me in that it seem SO low and so I was
wondering if I was shy on processing power. I was thinking it must be a
typo or something because 150 messages per day seems ridiculously low
for that type of machine.

Dave

Peter Bonivart wrote:

> Dave Filchak wrote:
>
>> I just received my copy of the MailScanner book and was beginning to go
>> through it and in the course of doing that, it mentions system
>> configurations and some examples found on the MAQ. In looking at that I
>> came across the following stats that sort of freaked me out.
>>
>> Hardware: 1 x P4-2.0Ghz, 1G RAM, 80G IDE
>> Software: RHES 3, Sendmail 8.12.x, SA, razor, pyzor, dcc
>> RBLs: MTA = spamcop, ordb, sbl-xbl.spamhaus
>> Virus Scanners: ClamAVmodule SophosSAVI
>> Volume: 150 messages/day
>> Average Load: Around 2-4
>>
>> Hardware: 1 X Pentium, 200, 256 MB RAM, 4.3 SCSI HDD.
>> Software: Red Hat 9, Postfix 2.0.16, Gateway mode - All Mail forwarded
>> to Lotus Domino, Spamassassin, Pyzor, DCC, MailWatch, Vispan,
>> Mailscanner-MRTG, Caching Named,
>> RBLs: None in MTA, None in MailScanner, All in SpamAssassin
>> Virus Scanners: ClamAV
>> Volume: 1500 messages/day
>>
>> Now I have a  Pentium IV 2.6 GHz machine with a gig of ram and and
>> pushing through about  750 to 1000 on average with some days going
>> considerably higher, so this makes me worry a lot ;-(  Am I totally
>> under powered here? I am
>> using  a setup very similar to the first one except it is RH 9. I also
>> find it odd that the second system can process more mail per day? Is it
>> a typo?
>
>
> Those examples are from real life, it's not meant to show what those
> systems really can handle, it's the load they have so if you have less
> the configuration is adequate.
>
> How do you figure that you're underpowered with 1000 messages a day?
> Your system should handle 25 times that load.
>
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> /Peter Bonivart
>
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