off topic - Email Statistics

[Peter Farrow]

Stephen Swaney wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Tim Sailer
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:19 AM
>> To: MailScanner discussion
>> Subject: Re: Email Statistics
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:17:37AM +0100, Ronny T. Lampert wrote:
>>     
>>>>> I have been looking at my stats,  I was curious what other people
>>>>>           
>> get
>>     
>>>>> Current doing about 100,000 emails a month with a 77% Spam hit.
>>>>>           
>>> Those are my numbers from the last 24 hours.
>>>
>>> We're doing a least
>>>
>>> 100,000+ mails per day
>>> 48,000+ blocked per day
>>> 310 "is spam" from MailScanner/SpamAssassin per day
>>>       
>> Ugh. So far today from *one* of my two mail systems (the least busy):
>>
>> Msgs handled successfully	25,839 	 	Messages rejected
>> 	266,311 	 	Rejection rate	91.16%
>>
>> Of the 25k not outright rejected, only about 11% are non-spam.
>>
>> This is at 09:00 today.
>>
>> Tim
>>     
>
> I just had to throw these current stats in. This is a client's system that
> has been under a denial of service attack (Joe Job) for the last six months:
>
> Statistic					mailscan2
> Delivery Attempts				15,141,706
> Accepted messages				119,224
> % Accepted messages			0.79%
> Messages rejected by BarricadeMX	15,022,482
> % Messages rejected by BarricadeMX	99.21%
> Connections per second			36.58
> Connections per hour			131,672
> Connections per day			3,160,138
> Max  Simultaneous Connections		802
> Load Average				less than 2.0
> Process Age (seconds)			413,983
> Process Age (days)			4.79
>
> Their system is a single CPU / Dual Core Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz w/ 2
> GB of memory handling 3,160,138 connection attempts a day. BarricadeMX is
> running in front of our custom version of MailScanner. They don't even
> notice the attack any more Please contact me off list if you ever have a
> DDOS problem. We have a very quick to install solution. 
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Swaney
> steve at fsl.com
> www.fsl.com
>
>   
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