From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 16:15:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C883B16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:15:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lists.frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CD643D48 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:15:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olive@oban.frmug.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.frmug.org (Postfix/TLS) with ESMTP id 01DF420F62 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:15:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lists.frmug.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (frmug.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29527-05 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:15:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by lists.frmug.org (Postfix/TLS, from userid 66) id AD59120F5D; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:15:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by weirdos.oban.frmug.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA928C33 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:12:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: by weirdos.oban.frmug.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 9D0C98C28; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:12:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:12:29 +0200 From: Olivier Tharan To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040623161229.GJ37909@weirdos.oban.frmug.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <40D9A58E.2040703@ctseuro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40D9A58E.2040703@ctseuro.com> X-Attribution: Olive X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at frmug.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 with 40000 virus scanned mails / day on Dell hardware?(Hardware suggestions) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:15:32 -0000 * Karl M. Joch (20040623 17:45): > I need to setup 3 servers on different locations as mail gateway with > about 40k mail per day each. the servers runs MailScanner, Clamav and > Spamassassin. The customer has Dell hardware and only buys Dell hardware. > > Has anybody experience with Dell servers which runs under FreeBSD. I > think about systems with Dual Xeon 3.0, 4 GB Ram and fast SCSI Hot Plug > Raid 5 which should be strong enough to handle that amount of mails > forwarding them to a Notes server. If you are looking for 5.2.1, you are on the wrong list. Anyway, a Pentium III with 256 Mb RAM handles virus scanning and spam tagging for ~ 60k mails a day without any problem. Your biggest bottleneck might be the Notes server. -- olive