> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Damian > Menscher > > My silly university spent $0.5M on a commercial product to perform spam > and virus filtering (they have the "if it costs that much, it MUST be > good" mentality). And, just after they put it into production, Sober.P > came out and knocked it flat. After a couple days with multi-hour email > delays, people are pretty pissed. And I smell opportunity.... >
It's always nice to learn at Universities... some people learn that they messed up with some half a million decision ;) We had the same issue here with Exchange and some paid AV. It really didn't let virus pass, because when the landslide of viral mail came, the servers collapsed =) We set up some Linux/sendmail/clamav servers and we are now the enterprise MX and Smarthost to filter their mail. > Could someone with a LARGE site (we have about 35,000 users) post what > hardware they use for ClamAV, and how many messages/day it handles? > I'd like to suggest they put it on a few PCs and have their relays > contact the milter via a network socket in a round-robin fashion. But > it would be good to hear people's experiences with something on this > large of a scale before I make the proposal. > We have nearly 4M messages and like 600K viral messages per day on four: - 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (HT) (4 virtual processors) - 2GB RAM These servers don't do delivery, their are just the MXs, filtering incoming mail and relaying to internal servers. They have avg CPU% of 20% and avg/peak load of 1/10. We also have a similar setup as the Smarthost, filtering outgoing mail and relaying to the world. -Samuel _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
