From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 19:46:13 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 E591516A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:46:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obh.snafu.de (obh.snafu.de [213.73.92.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11B843D5A for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:46:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ob@gruft.de) Received: from ob by obh.snafu.de with local (Exim 4.32; FreeBSD) id 1BdDgI-000EQ3-CB for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:45:14 +0200 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:45:14 +0200 From: Oliver Brandmueller To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040623194514.GG67092@e-Gitt.NET> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <40D9A58E.2040703@ctseuro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40D9A58E.2040703@ctseuro.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Oliver Brandmueller 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 19:46:14 -0000 Hi. On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:45:18PM +0200, Karl M. Joch wrote: > 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. Our current setup for exim + amavisd-new incl. SpamAssassin and clamav consists of a bunch of boxes with 2.4 GHz Xeon, 2 Gigs of RAM and 3ware SATA RAID 10 on 4 10k rpm disks. Each of these machines handles about half a million mails per day (though we currently have enough machines to load them with only about 300,000 mails per day). With only 40k mails per day you should not see any problems, but you should consider using RAID 1 or RAID 10 because for this task I/O is the bottleneck, not so much CPU. I disabled swapping completely btw. - Oliver -- | Oliver Brandmueller | Offenbacher Str. 1 | Germany D-14197 Berlin | | Fon +49-172-3130856 | Fax +49-172-3145027 | WWW: http://the.addict.de/ | | Ich bin das Internet. Sowahr ich Gott helfe. | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung aller enthaltenen Adressen ist nicht gestattet! |