Use of floating point on typical mailserver

[Martin.Hepworth]

Gregg

Thought the new N2's weren't due for another 12 months at least....could
be wrong, usually am !

As regards functionality yeah the T2000/Solaris 10 is lovely...like I
said I populated the spare disk slots and got the new filesystem RAID1
with zero downtime.

Now combine this with your email sitting on ZFS and you're definitely
onto a winner IHMO.

--
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 Greg Matthews
> Sent: 01 February 2007 13:31
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Use of floating point on typical mailserver
>
> Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> >
> > BTW my new email server is a new Dell 2950  (Centos 4.4) with 6 x
73GB
> > 10k SAS RAID 5 dfor mail store and hardly get a loadave reading 0.00
> > with 140 imap users...8 GB ram and 2 twin core 3.2 Xeons (I think
can't
> > remember exact CPUS). Going to do SIP and IM on it as well soon. A
LOT
> > cheaper than a T2000....
>
> maybe - we get the academic discounting of course. T2000s are likely
to
> plummet once the new Niagra chips are shipping as well. Also, we deal
> with *lot* of email, currently split over 3 disparate machines. 32
> concurrent threads sounded like good way to go with a mail relay but
its
> going to be reeeal slow if it needs to do any amount of FP. I can also
> sell it to the money men on running cost!
>
> G
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