Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 01:32:55 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heavily loaded mail servers - any stats? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126012832.18951B-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <199711260459.UAA17867@hub.freebsd.org>
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I have some rough info. Our nameserver/auth/pop-server/mailserver does
about 150,000 messages a month, and it's currently pretty happy. It's a
Pentium 133 with 128M and one big drive. The only bottleneck I see now is
the drive. I'm going to be striping two 2G Cudas for /var/mail RSN and
adding a tape drive to the machine to simplify nightly backups of the mail
spool. I have a feeling that will take me pretty far, as it's nowhere
near swapping yet, and it's still running 2.1-stable...
Charles Sprickman
spork@super-g.com
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"I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on" -DB
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz wrote:
> 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. I'm trying to suggest that their traffic
> isn't all that impressive, that it only loads their server because of
> the wacko X.400 MTA they're running, and that a PC running FreeBSD
> would laugh at the effort.
>
> So I'm interested in some stats from some of the larger mail servers
> running FreeBSD, and particularly freebsd.org itself, in terms of
> system size, MTA and version, and the mail load being handled. Anyone
> got any data they can chuck in?
>
> -- C.
>
> --
> Craig Harding Acting Director, Massey University Television Production Centre
> "I don't know about God, I just think we're handmade" - Polly
>
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