System capacity

[Dave Filchak]

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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?

Dave

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