Hello all,
I've been lurking here for a little while, and haven't seen this kind of
thing come up, so I was curious if anyone has any suggestions about it.
One of the companies we do backend work for has a very busy mail server
- averages probably 50 messages/minute, with peak burst periods of about
100-110 messages/minute. Running spamc/spamd on that box resulted in
huge load averages (30-40 or more) at peak time, and loads of 15 or 16
at normal time.
We are in the process of revamping things, and will probably move to a
distributed spamd, but we are also thinking about replacing the mail
server itself. We need a little more juice to do other things like
running clamd and whatnot. I was just wondering what hardware other
people are using for this volume of email - ~75000 emails/day, some days
more (especially when one of these worms pops up it's head). Right now
it's running on an smp AMD K7 or so, but we're looking for suggestions
for upgrade.
Thanks for any advice on this,
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| Stephen Gran | Q: What looks like a cat, flies like a |
| steve@lobefin.net | bat, brays like a donkey, and plays |
| http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | like a monkey? A: Nothing. |
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I've been lurking here for a little while, and haven't seen this kind of
thing come up, so I was curious if anyone has any suggestions about it.
One of the companies we do backend work for has a very busy mail server
- averages probably 50 messages/minute, with peak burst periods of about
100-110 messages/minute. Running spamc/spamd on that box resulted in
huge load averages (30-40 or more) at peak time, and loads of 15 or 16
at normal time.
We are in the process of revamping things, and will probably move to a
distributed spamd, but we are also thinking about replacing the mail
server itself. We need a little more juice to do other things like
running clamd and whatnot. I was just wondering what hardware other
people are using for this volume of email - ~75000 emails/day, some days
more (especially when one of these worms pops up it's head). Right now
it's running on an smp AMD K7 or so, but we're looking for suggestions
for upgrade.
Thanks for any advice on this,
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| Stephen Gran | Q: What looks like a cat, flies like a |
| steve@lobefin.net | bat, brays like a donkey, and plays |
| http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | like a monkey? A: Nothing. |
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