Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:19:19 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clamav replacement for FreeBSD+postfix? Message-ID: <200702192021.l1JKLAkQ021489@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <cone.1171915729.745199.41200.5001@35st.simplicato.com> References: <cone.1171556679.453588.55347.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <i2hat2l2ml6q1bfhv1t8ja63ghu5jdkocv@4ax.com> <cone.1171743956.652183.78181.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <200702172201.l1HM1BnR009915@lava.sentex.ca> <cone.1171915729.745199.41200.5001@35st.simplicato.com>
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At 03:08 PM 2/19/2007, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>Mike Tancsa writes:
>
>>>Great. That sound promissing.
>>>Is this with i386 or amd64?
>>i386. clamav, spamassassin/mimedefang are all slower on amd64
>
>Thanks for the feedback.
>How much memory on your machine(s)?
We have 7 machines doing spam and virus scanning for a number of
client machines. We have 2G of RAM per machine which is enough so
things do not swap.
>Part of the reason I was thinking amd64 is because the servers have 4GB.
>Doesn't one need PAE at 4GB and above?
Why do you need so much per server to do spam/virus scanning ? If
anything, leave the 4G inside but just boot with i386. It will waste
a bit, but I am guessing better than using PAE
e.g. here is one such 4G server we have.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (2210.20-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x20fb1 Stepping = 1
Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
Features2=0x1<SSE3>
AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
AMD Features2=0x3<LAHF,CMP>
Cores per package: 2
real memory = 3756916736 (3582 MB)
avail memory = 3677523968 (3507 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <Nvidia AWRDACPI>
>We get our machines installed with FreeBSD and the vendor has been
>putting PAE on machines with 4GB, but I am wondering if it is even needed.
I have never used (nor trusted) PAE.
---Mike
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