hardware for MailScanner server?

[Peter Russell]

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I have a p2.8 with 700mb ram and SCSSI disk with Freebsd, it can easily
do 120000+ messages per day. It might be able to do more, but we could
figure out how to send any more messages to it during testing.

I had all of the ruledujour rulesets, dcc, razor2, pyzor, all rbls,
clamav, we got 6 machine sin our office, got the developer guy to help
me right a script, grabbed 60mb of stored viruses and spamms from the
current live server and copied to all 6 machines (all on same LAN as
test machine) and fired the script on each machine. We could only send
120k of messages per hour - dont have the precise stats with me, but it
didnt raise a sweat on thsi machine, i guess we at about 1/4 or a 1/3 of
its capacity.

Pete



Martin Hepworth wrote:
> Philip
>
> Also depends on average message size..
>
> RAM the more the better.
>
> Also using  Razor & dcc & pyzor might ne a little over the top..
>
> I also hope the bigevil.cf isn't one of the rules you are using...
>
> anyway my 2.8ghz PIV(ht) with 1.5 GB DDR RAM and SATA HD can do around
> 3,000 messages per hour and it's not that well tuned....(runs FreeBSD
> not Linux). That was last time I messed up and the queue was 550
> messages which took around 10 minutes to clear.
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> Philip Hachey wrote:
>
>> 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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