New machine

[Roger Jochem]

Thanks a lot...

Your setup is very similar to mine. This would help a lot.

I will change new configuration, using SCSI drivers instead of SATA, and 
increasing memory to 3 Gb.

Regards

Roger Jochem

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Beckenhauer" <bbecken at aafp.org>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: New machine


> Roger,
>
> I put two Dell PowerEdge 850's Pentium D 930 with 2GB RAM and SCSI 15k
> drives into production the end of June.
> Each box is running Razor2, Pyzor, Rules_Du_Jour, DCC, three Anti-Virus
> scanners and MailWatch in Distributed mode.
>
> Running MailScanner-4.55.10-3 on Centos 4.3.  Uptime is currently 58
> days.
>
> If you're going to run MailWatch, I'd recommend putting 3GB in the
> MailWatch system so you can keep the MySQL tables in memory and give
> roughly a 1 Gig each to the MailScanner Max Children processes
> (Currently set to 10).
>
> CPU Avg load 5/10/15 (as shown by 'top') all run under 3
> Process 100K/email per box daily.
>
> Regards,
> Brad
>
>
>>>> "Roger Jochem" <roger at rudnick.com.br> 9/21/2006 6:54 AM >>>
> 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?
>
> 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).
>
> This machine should deal with 20.000 messages / day (about 1 Gb in
> size),
> mcafee, clamav, bitdefender, mailwatch, spamassassin, mysql, php and
> apache
> 2.
>
> Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated!
>
> Regards
>
> Roger Jochem
>
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