From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 20:50:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 657D216A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:50:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from materva.diewebmaster.at (materva.diewebmaster.at [80.66.42.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A02543D46 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:50:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from christian.damm@diewebmaster.at) Received: from localhost (localhost.diewebmaster.at [127.0.0.1]) by materva.diewebmaster.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9A321811E; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:50:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from materva.diewebmaster.at ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (materva.diewebmaster.at [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37192-10; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:50:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (unknown [80.66.40.101]) by materva.diewebmaster.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098D42180E1; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:50:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42714C91.6060705@diewebmaster.at> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:50:25 +0200 From: Christian Damm Organization: Die Webmaster User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jim.durham@nepinc.com References: <200504281032.33822.jimd@nepinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200504281032.33822.jimd@nepinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at diewebmaster.at cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Server recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:50:16 -0000 Jim Durham schrieb: > Hi, > > We currently have a dual-1.8 Xeon box with 2gb ram and Raid-1 > 160mhz SCSI's running sendmail/procmail/spamassassin and clamav. this iron should handle serious load without probs. 1.) how large is your userbase? 2.) do you know the bottleneck? (cpu, i/o, ram etc.) 3.) average mails processed per day? (ham/spam/virus ratio?) 4.) sendmail is slow compared to other modern unix MTA`s 5.) procmail and spamassassin are resource hogs > > Our place is growing, adding users and so, we need a bigger, > faster box. ...or multiple smaller boxes, load balanced via rrdns or a dedicated load balancer. anyway, i think hardware is not your problem...as long as i dont have any numbers its hard to make suggestions. im running >25k userbases on single self built x86 hosts (mostly p4`s (> 2ghz), 1gb ram, raid-10 (4 hd`s) - its all about fine tuning the whole system (os, mta, other daemons/apps) for performance (btw. - i dont have any 5.x production boxes right now, im talking 4.x here). > > Question: Currently the box mentioned is a Dell PowerEdge 2650. > We like to deal with Dell, but it's not absolutely "written in > stone" that I do so. I bought a 2650 because we got one to run > a Windows server and I booted FreeBSD on it to see what it would > make of the PERC3 Raid and all that and it was just fine. The > 2650 just 'loves' FreeBSD, so we bought one and its worked well, > but we need more performance now. What bigger, faster box would > make a significant jump in speed and capacity runs FreeBSD well? > > I can get a 2850 with 3gb processors, 320mhz SCSIs and add more > RAM, but I'm not sure that would give us a quantum-leap in > performance. > > -- Thanks for any suggestions.. > > Jim Durham > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > !DSPAM:4270fbf594953045413553! > -- mfg. christian damm technische leitung phone: dw 42 email: christian.damm@diewebmaster.at icq at work: 124464652 die webmaster - flötzerweg 156 - 4030 linz - austria phone: +43-732-381242 fax: +43-732-381242-22 isdn (leonardo): +43-732-381242-33 homepage: www.diewebmaster.at, public email: office@diewebmaster.at