New Server Specs?

[Martin.Hepworth]

Paul

Memory is normally the biggest requirement and easiest to fix...- 1GB
per CPU core..



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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 Paul Hutchings
> Sent: 04 April 2007 11:12
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: New Server Specs?
>
> Folks,
>
> Looking for a little feedback.
>
> I've been evaluating MailScanner for a couple of weeks now and it
seems
> pretty clear it's more than up to what we want, so I'm looking at
> replacing our existing relay hardware.
>
> Given the MAQ says "A Dual Xeon with 2 GB of RAM and 15K SCSI disks
can
> process up to 1,4 million of messages/day" and we accept and process
maybe
> 30,000 on a busy week I think it's fair to say that pretty much any
new
> server we buy will be more than sufficient.
>
> My question is, broadly speaking which would be best to have more of,
CPU,
> ram, or disk subsystem?
> I'm looking at the cheapest HP/Sun/Dell servers which tend to be SATA
> disks and slower dual-core CPUs but with plenty of memory slots.
>
> TIA,
> Paul
>
> Paul Hutchings
> Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd.
> Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378
> mailto:paul.hutchings at mira.co.uk <mailto:paul.hutchings at mira.co.uk>
>
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