Solution for 1 CPU screaming

[Peter Russell]

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Be careful.

Why put this responsability on yourself? They are using open source, 
their costs are essentially hardware - how much cheaper does it get to 
run a small IT dept? Now if you say you can put more services onto an 
already overloaded box, what will happen when the next mydoom outbreak 
occurs, your machine will slow to crawl (at best) and your boss will ask 
you to stay back late at night while you fix it.

If you are not a part owner of the company then i would be putting these 
responsabilities back on them by making a recomendation and explaining 
the consequences...


Scott Silva wrote:
> Mauricio Cavalcanti wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately i cannot do it...
>>
>> Thks,
>> Mauricio.
>>
>>> From: Scott Silva <ssilva at SGVWATER.COM>
>>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>> Subject: Re: Solution for 1 CPU screaming
>>> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:40:17 -0800
>>>
>>> Mauricio Cavalcanti wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it´s half off topic, but...
>>>>
>>>> In a medium business office (~1k users), I have 2 servers running 
>>>> Linux: 1 gateway (P4 ~ unused) and 1 mail server (P3 very used) 
>>>> running pop (dovecot), apache (for webmail), sendmail with DCC, 
>>>> Pyzor, Razor, SA and MailScanner.
>>>>
>>>> The P3 CPU is becoming red in monitoring. They want to include samba 
>>>> file share in P3 server and I think it will not work as they want.
>>>>
>>>> I think I can use P4 to make e-mail tests (MS and SA) e after that, 
>>>> this server relays the "low score" e-mail to P3 and make it´s life 
>>>> easier :)
>>>>
>>>> Anyone has this kind of solution implemented or have another ideia 
>>>> to solve this?
>>>>
>>>> Thks in advance,
>>>> Mauricio.
>>>>
>>> Would it be feasible to swap the servers?
>>> IE.. use the PIII for gateway and P4 for everything else.
> 
> 
> Then you could run MailScanner and all on the P4, and relay to the PIII.
> The P4 would be the MX for the mail, and it would just forward the 
> "cleaner" mail to the PIII.
> I am running many services on a dual PIII 1ghz machine. I just have i 
> gigabyte of ram, and run the MailScanner incoming directory in tmpfs.
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