Fast Dual Core or slower Quad Core..?

[Martin.Hepworth]

Paul

More to the point is amount of spam increase over the three years.

In the in the 7.5 years since I've been here we've gone from from 6-7000
messages per month in total to 19,000 per day! Now of the 19,000
something like 1,700 are legitimate emails. If I look at inbound only
emails the results are even more scarey.

I *THINK* about 3 years ago we where doing something like 6,000 messages
per day, so over the last 3 years email traffic has more or less tripled
and the vast majority of that increase is spam.

--
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: 26 April 2007 09:59
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Fast Dual Core or slower Quad Core..?
>
> For the Dual Core I'd likely be looking at one of these "as is" plus a
> couple of 10k SAS drives:
>
>
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF06b/521-525-358263-358263-1208
> 3449-12569852-78138665.html
>
> I'm sure Quad Core is total overkill, and of course the machine is
> twin-socket so can always have a second CPU added.
>
> The thing needs to last three years minimum that's all, hence the
query
> as I have no idea of Linux/MailScanner/Clam "roadmaps" assuming
> MailScanner remains the ideal tool for the job.
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Glenn
> Steen
> Sent: 26 April 2007 09:49
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Fast Dual Core or slower Quad Core..?
>
> On 26/04/07, Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at> wrote:
> > On 04/26/2007 10:19 AM, Glenn Steen wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > > Things to keep in mind: You need lots of RAM. At least 1 GiB/CPU
...
> > > Well, RAM is cheap these days:-).
> >
> > You know? He was talking 'bout a Compaq Maschine; So RAM isn't
cheap.
> :-P
>
> Taking the relativity of everything into account.... those buggers
> have gone down too (at least here in Sweden:).
>
> Since Paul is thinking HP from the outset, he must have a budget to
> cover it... I hope:-D.
>
> > > Also, there is a tradeoff between faster CPUs and more utnits
(CPUs)
> > > to schedule work on. If you have massive amounts of messages/day
I'd
> > > recommend the more units.
> >
> > However. I would also recommend more processors... Just my personal
> > experience...
> >
>
> If they are exorbitantly more expensive though... As it is, I handle
> that amount (approximately) with a tired old DL380G2 ... 1.266 GHz
> single PIII with 1.5 GiB RAM... So any of them would be perfectly
> fine.
>
> Cheers
> --
> -- Glenn
> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
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