Server Spec for MailScanner

[Michael Baird]

I do 150,000 per day on my blades with a NFS mailstore, mqueue.in is on
tmpfs, virus and spam checks, razor2, dcc, rbl checks enabled in
spamassassin. Each of my mx's are p3-1200's/1GB Ram, they all run radius
on them as well, and I have some screwy procmail rules for spamassassin
that add to the load, which I could migrate to MailScanner (once I
figure out how to get it to read spamassassin prefs properly). They
handle this load fine, so I think a P3/800 w/scsi drive would be almost
dead idle with a 3000 message per day load.

Regards
MIKE
> Quoting Pete <pete at eatathome.com.au>:
>
> > For 6k - 9k emails per day, running Clamav and etrust would something
> > like a Proliant ML370 2 x P3 800/1GB RAM and scsi HDD running either
> > suse or red hat 9 (my FreeBSd skills are not sufficient for this yet) be
> > enough horsepower?
>
> You should be fine for that load. 6k - 9k messags is a light load.
> I would get more RAM if I were you. It is cheap and DOES make a difference.
>
>  Alternately our vendor has a single Ml310 P2.8 /1GB
> > Ram and scsi. will mailScanner benefit more from dual CPU or faster CPU
> > considering the load i described above? Or would I be better off spend
> > more on RAM? 1 GB seems like plenty of RAM to me, but then again i
> > havent processed 9k emails before, and some of you have, so hopefully
> > some one could advised on which hardware will benefit MS more?
>
> Get more RAM, if you can !!!
>
> > Additionally we may have access to an additional scanner license - would
> > i be better off running 3 x virus scanners, clam, etrust and
> > sophos/f-prot, or just run 2, clam and sophos/f-prot, especially
> > considering my hardware limitations?
>
> With 3 scanners, you are entering the paranoia stage :)
> Clam AV and another commrecial scanner should be fine.
> Don't forget that MailScanner is a scanner as well ...
>
> > Is there a massive difference in hardware requirement between processing
> > 6k or 9k emails per day?
>
> Are you considering turning on SpamAssassin and RBL checks?
>
>
> Good luck
> Marco
>