Enterprise scalability

[Randal, Phil]

Is that 200,000 per blade?  What sort of volume in GB are we talking about?

Just curious.

We're handling about 8600 messages a day, 560MB on a single P4 Xeon 2.4GHz,
1GB RAM, tmpfs and hardware mirrored SCSI disks with a load average around
0.5 (box is also running squid for around 800 users).

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Michael Baird
> Sent: 25 February 2004 21:41
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Enterprise scalability
>
>
> You would need a lot of mighty boxes to handle that kind of volume. I
> use blades, so when my volume gets to a certain level, I just image in
> another one, and mx to it as well (to a centralized NFS spool). My
> blades are PIII-1200, I can handle without delay running
> mailscanner/spamassassin, and using tmpfs for the queue.in 200,000 per
> day, I'm using McAfee to do virus scanning as well, the machines only
> handle inbound mail, no outbound relay is allowed.
>
> Regards
> MIKE
>
> > If I were implementing in this type of environment, I would break it
> > up into more manageable chunks.  First, figure out roughly how many
> > messages are processed each day.  If you are expecting 500,000 users
> > who will receive on average 75 messages per day you are looking at
> > about 37,500,000 messages per day (that's a lot of mail).  You can
> > build boxes fairly cheaply for handling a fraction of that mail, say
> > 1,000,000 messages per day.  Get yourself 40 boxes, some load
> > balancing tools, a way to manage the configuration files easily and
> > you are in business.  There were some threads within the
> past 3 months
> > about average load with hardware descriptions that you will find
> > somewhat helpful.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Forrest Aldrich [mailto:forrie at FORRIE.COM]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:01 PM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Enterprise scalability
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm looking to evaluate a scalable scanning solution - the
> > > tune of 100's of thousands of users - and I wonder if anyone
> > > here can share their successes (and nightmares) with regard
> > > to MailScanner and its auxiliary
> > > tools (SA is another worry).   I'm looking into Qmail at
> > > first, as we've
> > > a need for virtual mailboxes (5 per user), etc.
> > >
> > > I'm concerned about how perl might behave in this type of
> > environment.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> >
>