RE: [SAtalk] server specs

2003-10-22 Thread Todd Schuldt
nk of processing to those persistent connections. (and I can always fill the 2nd cpu slot to be a total freak) Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Wilder Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAt

Re: [SAtalk] server specs

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Wilder
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:32:41AM -0500, Todd Schuldt wrote: > SA is also file IO intensive. It depends on your hard drive system for the > file IO as well - using IDE or SCSI or SAN? Hard or soft RAID? If hardware > RAID what cache size and what mode 0, 1, 5, 10, 50? What drive speed? Also >

RE: [SAtalk] server specs

2003-10-21 Thread Robert A. Hayden
Just to echo Todd's suggestions. Disk I/O is your primary issue. I recommend using RAID mirroring instead of RAID 5 since RAID5 has such crappy write performance. Physical memory is important if your box is slow enough to queue up multiple spamd processes, but any modern machine will clear t

Re: [SAtalk] server specs

2003-10-21 Thread Ray Dzek
I have SA running as a Filter/Relay on a RH 7.3 box.  It is a Celeron 1.4Ghz.  It processes mail for about 250 users.  It has a single 7200RPM IDE drive and 768MB of PC100 RAM.  I process around 4000 messages a day (Most of it spam)   - Original Message - From: Wiebren Br

RE: [SAtalk] server specs

2003-10-21 Thread Todd Schuldt
SA is also file IO intensive.  It depends on your hard drive system for the file IO as well – using IDE or SCSI or SAN?  Hard or soft RAID?  If hardware RAID what cache size and what mode 0, 1, 5, 10, 50?  What drive speed?  Also depends on OS choice and MTA.   I use RH 7.3 with CommuniGa