On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:27, Joshua A. Fiske wrote: > 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? >
Pack as much RAM into those puppies as you can afford. For a gateway, RAM is #1 with drive space being a close #2. -- AltGrendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- 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
