Your MailScanner stats

[Håkon Eriksen]

> Just wondering if people wouldn't mind sharing some stats of there box
> and how MailScanner runs.
> 
> Like CPU, Memory, OS, Major MailScanner config options and how many
> emails you can handle in an hour.
> 

We have five Dell 2650s. Each with 2x2GHz P4 Xeon and 2GB RAM. They all
run RedHat Linux, Exim, MailScanner (duh..), SpamAssassin and Sophos
(with perl-SAVI). 

On an average day, they receive about 80 000 messages each, and deliver 
apx. 125 000[1]. That adds up to about 2GB incoming and 2.5GB outgoing
data. I haven't done any real benchmarking, but it seems each of them
can handle about 12 000 messages in an hour at most. We could probably
tune them to handle more, though. 

-- 
 Håkon Eriksen <hakon.eriksen at usit.uio.no>
 Gruppe for drift av grunntjenester (GT), SAPP, USIT