Hello all, I have seen requests for help sizing servers on this list before, but never anything that comes close to the size of the server that I (think) that I need. Here is my situation.
I need to scan the mail that comes from two large qmail installations (whole site scanning). The volume of this mail is approx. 150,000 messages per day. I have tested these two setups with limited success: SETUP #1: - 1x POWER4 @ 1.1GHz - 1 GB RAM - 150K messages per day absolutely swamped this machine SETUP #2: - 2x POWER4 @ 1.1GHz - 1 GB RAM - 150K messages per day elevated load average to ~32 I have a third setup (in a production environment) that I may be able to use if I can be assured that spamassassin will not eat 100% of the CPU as it has done on the previous two setups. This setup is as follows: SETUP #3: - 6x POWER4 @ 1.1GHz - 8GB RAM - Current load average of 1 However, management has been leaning towards the purchase of a dedicated box to do spamassassin scanning. I need to have some idea of what type of box will suffice to cover our needs and be somewhat expandible for the future. The new box will probably not have POWER4 processors (as my test environment has had), rather they will have Intel Xeon processors. Of course, I use spamd/spamc rather than invoking MANY instances of perl. I also have disabled bayesian filtering (because I have not had great luck with it). Does anyone have any suggestions as to what an appropriately sized system would be for this type of setup? Your help is greatly appreciated, -- Josh --- Joshua Fiske, [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX Team Director, Office of Information Technology Clarkson University Office: 315-268-6756 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
