Yeah testing will be done pretty heavily before put into production. Also this product might not work under our load. That is where the testing comes in. I was courious to see what type of load I could expect, it does not look good from what I am hearing. I am still in the planning stage of this project though.
This give me some things to think about though. Thanks, Keith On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Keith Olmstead said the following on 19/11/02 16:11: > > Hello, > > > > A quick question. After doing some reading, I noticed alot ppl have SA > > running on Intel boxes. Is anyone running SA on Solaris boxes? Will be > > processing about 600k emails/day on one mail server and was wondering how > > it would fair. It is a Sun V880 with dual 700 sparc cpu and 4 gig of ram. > > Also is SA cpu intensive or memory intensive? > > > > Does anyone else process this amount of email? If so how does your server > > fair with the load? > > I think you're going to run into problems. I would suggest you think > about adding three more of those boxes, maybe more. > > Seriously, if you do that much mail, you'd surely test SA pretty heavily > before rolling it into production, wouldn't you? I suggest allowing > about 0.5 seconds per email, probably more. That means you're going to > do about 100k mails per box, maximum (assuming a non-even spread). > > Oh, that makes it about 6 of those boxes. > > Alternatively, consider using our service: http://www.messagelabs.com/, > and we'll spread the cost for you (those sure are expensive boxes!) :-) > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
