Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 02:26:24 -0400 From: Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> To: BSD Blood <bsdblood@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is this good enough? Message-ID: <20010402022624.A12995@flarn.it.ca> In-Reply-To: <F610Gxw8Zw5V6QcqnWw00011700@hotmail.com>; from bsdblood@hotmail.com on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 04:19:32AM -0000 References: <F610Gxw8Zw5V6QcqnWw00011700@hotmail.com>
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Heya. We have 24000 users being served by a 266 MHz Pentium-II with 64MB RAM. The box handles an average of about 60000 unique emails a day, and its load average sits at around 1.2 all the time because I run dnetc on it. The specs you've described would also be very good for a dnetc client that also did a bit of mail on the side. We also have a 133MHz Pentium with 64MB RAM with slightly more than 2000 users doing mail (sendmail+uw-imap), along with radius for six PRIs and DNS and web hosting of about 200 domains. It only does about 4000 emails a day, and manages to keep up quite nicely. So... The system you've described is *way* more than you need. I suggest you trade in the video card for the cheapest thing you can find (or build a real headless server by installing a PC Weasel (http://www.realweasel.com/)), and invest in some more hard disks. Don't reduce your RAM (it's cheap these days), but you might want to trade in the CPU and hard disk for slower units, and split your disks over multiple spindles which can be managed as a RAID from vinum. p On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 04:19:32AM -0000, BSD Blood wrote: > Hello all. Is the computer specs below sufficient to handle e-mail traffic > for 200 users(current) and expanding to 10,000 users in the future(maybe in > 20 years time, let's give it the benefit of the doubt) on FreeBSD? I'm sure > it can; but I need replies from the FreeBSD gurus, hackers, and other > advocates to agree with me/confirm so that I can convince the people in my > workplace to use this machine below as the mail server. I'll print every > replies from you guys and show those who don't believe me and include it in > my report, if it is necessary. Let's unleash the power of FreeBSD. > > 1. AMD 1GHz Athlon > 2. 256MB RAM (can add more if needed) > 3. Wide Ultra2 SCSI 30GB HDD(can add more HDD in the future) > 4. 3Com 3C905B NIC > 5. Matrox Millenium 16MB video card > 6. The rest are pretty basic; peripherals, etc. > > > btw, i'm not subscribed to both questions and hardware. > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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