Which hardware do you use?

[John Rudd]

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On Sep 17, 2004, at 7:30 AM, J wrote:

> Are there some people who want to share the specs of their hardware
> running
> MS and what quantities of mail they are processing?

4 solaris 8 boxes:

    2 sunblade 150's with 1.5 gigs of ram, arranged with pairs of disks
being mirrored in disk suite.

    2 sunfire v150's with 1.5 gigs of ram, arranged with pairs of disks
being mirrored in disk suite.

They're all behind a cisco content switch, but we used to do DNS round
robin for them.

We scan around 200k-300k messages per day, sometimes a little less,
sometimes a little more.

In the near future we expect to upgrade these machines.  I've asked for
4 sunfire v220's (with more ram, dual processors, faster processors,
etc. ... and probably still all mirrored in disk suite, but probably
moving the mailscanner directories off to our BlueArc file server,
which is blindingly fast).  The other thing we plan to do in the future
to impact our capacity is that we're contemplating adding the SBL and
XBL to sendmail (blocking those messages at SMTP time instead of just
marking in spamassassin), and adding in the greet_delay as well.
That'll reduce the amount of traffic that gets through to mailscanner's
queues, reducing that latency.

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