System capacity

[Dave Filchak]

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Hey Martin,

Yeah I figured as much that these were examples but as another reader
said, that must be a type and that 150 messages per day must actually be
150K messages per day. My mail server also does double duty as a
secondary DNS and a project development web server so I wanted to make
sure there was enough overhead.

Dave

Martin Hepworth wrote:

> Dave
>
> my 800mhz celeron/512Mhz ram and 1x 40MB IDE  tops out at around 16,000
> messages per day. Also Runs MailWatch (and the mysql DB associated with
> it) on the same box. Normally it's running around the 8,000 per day mark.
>
> Run ClamAV, SophosSavi and SpamAssassin (with pyzor, spamcop-uri plugin
> and most of rulesmporium rules + a few other local ones).
>
> O/S is FreeBSD with softupdates on filesystems, and Exim as MTA.
>
> I think you 2.6Ghz P4 is a little *over* powered, but then it depends on
> what you can get your hands on at the time I guess...
>
> The systems listed in the MAQ are merely examples of that people have
> sent to Julian, not recommended setups.
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> 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?
>>
>> Dave
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