New MailScanner machine

[Martin Hepworth]

Ken

One other small point unrelated to your question but I'd get more RAM for
the new system.

Julian recommends 1GB per CPU and I gotta say I agree with him, even for you
small amount of emails per day (which BTW is about the same as me..)..

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Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ken Goods
> Sent: 04 April 2006 23:52
> To: MailScanner Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: OT: New MailScanner machine
> 
> I'm putting together a new machine to replace the one currently filtering
> our mail and delivering to an exchange server. The load increased back in
> December due to an update of MailScanner, Spamassassin, ClamAV, (and
> adding
> bitdefender). Spamassassin is timing out regularly and the machine is in
> heavy swap. (P233 with 196MB, processing ~8k emails per day).
> 
> I have found another machine in the boneyard that has a little more
> horsepower (550 PIII with 384MB) and would like to build a new box running
> the same configuration, plus it gives me a chance to add some "legs" to
> the
> old OS (Redhat 9). My plan is Centos 4.0 for the OS and sticking with
> everything else as it suits my comfort level.
> 
> My question is this... I want to load the least services to support
> MailScanner, Spamassassin, Clam, Bitdefender, Webmin, and Mailscanner-
> Mrtg.
> I noticed that there are three ISO's for Centos and another for Centos
> Server. Can I get away with just the Server ISO and use a minimal install
> or
> do I need to get all four and use a combination of them? Sorry if this is
> noob but I've looked around and can't find much information on the
> difference between the server ISO and the others and thought someone here
> may have some experience.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated much.
> 
> TIA
> Ken
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