From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 25 22:39:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA23543 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:39:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA23538 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:39:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA22054; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 01:32:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 01:32:55 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heavily loaded mail servers - any stats? In-Reply-To: <199711260459.UAA17867@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 ---- "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 >