Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:09:56 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heavily loaded mail servers - any stats? Message-ID: <199711261709.JAA19999@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Nov 1997 08:44:17 MST." <199711261544.IAA02670@mt.sri.com>
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>> I've been involved in a discussion with some people locally regarding >> large mail volumes and the size of servers needed to cope with it. >> They believe that 700,000 pieces of email per month (their current >> traffic) is an enormous load and requires big, expensive name-brand >> servers to deal with. > >Heck, that's *nothing*. Forget 'big heavy servers', if you're on a >significant number of FreeBSD mailing lists you're getting close to >10K/month, and that's per/user. 700K/month is chicken feed, and I'm >sure my 486/66 with FreeBSD could handle with w/out even breaking a >sweat. Using a nice round 1 million email number a month gives you >approximately 24/minute, which means that youre server is probably more >I/O bound than CPU bound. Get a good fast disk on the box and have at >it. Funny, actually. hub.freebsd.org sends out 1.5 *million* messages per *week* - about 6 million per month...so .7 million/month is a tiny amount of email, really. :-) -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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