hardware for MailScanner server?

[Randal, Phil]

We deal with similar volumes using a comparable spamassassin setup here,
with ClamAV, Bitdefender, and McAfee's uvscan without any problems on a
2.4GHz Pentium 4 box with 1GB of RAM and hardware-mirrored SCSI disks.

I'd highly recommend virus scanning with both Bitdefender Linux Edition
(free to use) and ClamAV.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Philip Hachey
> Sent: 15 February 2005 15:46
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: hardware for MailScanner server?
>
> Oh and ClamAV also runs on this server, scanning each message
> for viruses.
>
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> 2005-02-15 10:44
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>         To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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>         Subject:        hardware for MailScanner server?
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>
> Hi.  I have recently greatly increased the number of users
> whose mail get scanned by our MailScanner server.  Now, the
> hard drive tends to thrash a fair bit and SpamAssassin
> occasionally times out, especially during bursts.
> MailScanner needs to process around 40-60 messages per five
> minute interval.
>
> The server consists of a stripped down install of White Box
> Linux (a clone of RHEL3 -- 2.4 kernel), sendmail, MailScanner
> using RBL checks, and SpamAssassin using Bayes, Razor, DCC,
> Pyzor, and SURBL, as well as some additional custom rule
> files and rule files from www.rulesemporium.com.
>
> What would be a reasonable amount of RAM and CPU speed that
> could handle this?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
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