New machine

[Roger Jochem]

Thanks for your answer, Greg.

In your oppinion, what should be the ideal configuration? Not a very 
expensive one... My budget is a little limited...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Matthews" <gmatt at nerc.ac.uk>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: New machine


> Roger Jochem wrote:
>> I'm building a new web server / mail server this month. The last one is 
>> becoming really slow in mail processing... It's a 2 years old machine, 
>> it's allready retirement time for that machine. Today CPU and memory are 
>> in some parts of the day in max utilization.
>>
>> I'm thinking in a Pentium D 930 3 Ghz Dual Core 2x2mb chache with 1 Gb of 
>> memory, and 2 SATA disks (80 Gb each). Is this a good machine for the 
>> service? Is somebody using 64 bits machine for this kind of server? Would 
>> a 64 bits machine perform a better job?
>
> that sould do fine for 20000 messages! My relays each get around 200k hits 
> per day and each delivers 30-50k messages. These are pretty old dual Xeon 
> 2.8GHz. The only thing you might worry about is memory. 1GB is a bit low 
> for this type of server. I had to upgrade the memory in mine last year to 
> 3GB.
>
>>
>> I'm using Centos 3 in the actual machine. In the new one I would consider 
>> Centos 4 (maybe the 64 bits version, if 64 bits machine would do a better 
>> job).
>
> The Opteron is a pretty fast cpu, but 32/64 bit probably wont affect you 
> directly.
>
>>
>> This machine should deal with 20.000 messages / day (about 1 Gb in size), 
>> mcafee, clamav, bitdefender, mailwatch, spamassassin, mysql, php and 
>> apache 2.
>
> spamassassin and those AV will need adequate CPU and esp memory.
>
>>
>> Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated!
>
> I'd be less inclined to go for up to the minute hardware than build 
> quality. Dual redundant PSU, mirrored disks etc.
>
> Is anyone using a coolthreads CPU? would that technology suit this sort of 
> application?
>
> GREG
>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Roger Jochem
>
>
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