From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 07:34:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A97B16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:34:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from da.mailomat.net (mailomat.net [212.185.46.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9F243FA3 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:34:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ap@bnc.net) Received: This line has been intentionally left blank. Received: from bnc.net (port-212-202-189-32.reverse.qdsl-home.de [212.202.189.32]) (user=bnc.mail mech=LOGIN bits=0) hB4FVuu9017886; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:31:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ap@bnc.net) Received: by bnc.net (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.3) with PIPE id 402318; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:34:21 +0100 Received: from [194.39.192.247] (account ap HELO [194.39.192.247]) by bnc.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.3) with ESMTP-TLS id 402317; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:33:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20031203164252.B30624@mikea.ath.cx> References: <20031203164252.B30624@mikea.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <46BEACF4-266F-11D8-96F2-000A95A0BB90@bnc.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Achim Patzner To: mikea X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact info@mailomat.net for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request pointers to current-generation SMP boards X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:34:39 -0000 X-Original-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:33:57 +0100 X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:34:39 -0000 Am 03.12.2003 um 23:42 schrieb mikea: > I'm speccing out a server for the day job, to run MailScanner and > SpamAssassin on the inbound corporate mailstream. Well... I'm running CommuniGate Pro 4.1.8 using MailScanner with Sophos AV and McAfee (instead of buying those brain-dead plug-ins) on a dual Xeon ASUS 160-R 1U server on FreeBSD 5.1(just to spit into the eyes of those who told me FreeBSD wasn't usable). The machine is receiving about 500k messages a day and throwing about 450k of those away. I didn't notice any CPU load yet although it is hanging behind 2.4GBit/s bandwidth > I hope to talk the boss into something that is _really_ muscular, in > hope that the rising tide of spam, worms, etc., won't swamp the poor > thing after 6 months to a year. Save the money and use a decent mail server software instead of heating the vacuum. And maybe spend the money on redundance. > Or do people find that integrated peripheral support on > the motherboard isn't all that bad? Not at all. And if it dies its twin will take over. Those ASUS were bloody cheap (including dual Xeon and quite a bit of RAM). > I'm also planning to ask for SCSI, in as fast a flavor as I can get > approval for, and some _big_ SCSI drives. Well... I had a lot of problems with those bloody Adaptec U320 chips on that board. > Of course, if you can point to a ready-to-go server that meets these > specs and that we can afford, that's great. Take a look at ASUS web page Achim