Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 08:44:17 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heavily loaded mail servers - any stats? Message-ID: <199711261544.IAA02670@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199711260459.UAA17867@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199711260254.SAA06369@hub.freebsd.org> <199711260459.UAA17867@hub.freebsd.org>
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> 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. Heck, that's *nothing*. Forget 'big heavy servers', if you're on a significant number of FreeBSD mailing lists you're getting close to 10K/month, and that's per/user. 700K/month is chicken feed, and I'm sure my 486/66 with FreeBSD could handle with w/out even breaking a sweat. Using a nice round 1 million email number a month gives you approximately 24/minute, which means that youre server is probably more I/O bound than CPU bound. Get a good fast disk on the box and have at it. > 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? I don't have any real data, but I'm sure if you post something to isp you could probably get some pretty real numbers. Natehome | help
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