* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > As we have seen the amount of incoming mail increase by 25% in the last > few months, our customer is willing to invest in an extra mail relay. > I was thinking about a system with Sun's T1 chipset, (like the sunfire > T1000), I'm thinking the threaded nature of this chipset would work well > with the type of computing going on on a typical mailrelay (lots of > processes all doing relatively short bursts of cpu) ? Any ideas ?
Good CPU, Large RAM for ramdisk (temp files during message testing) and fast disks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tom. > > > > > > Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 27/09/2006 11:33 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: performance question > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like your opinion if our mailrelay is properly tuned: > > > > I have a mailrelay (sendmail / mimedefang / spamassassin with fuzzyocr, > > razor and dcc) running on a Sun V20Z with 6 GB Ram and 2 AMD 1.8Ghz > cpu's > > on Solaris 10. > > it currently handles 95000 mails per day (most of it spam ofcourse). > Load > > is currently constantly around 6 - 7, average scan time of a mail is > about > > 7 seconds. %io according to top is almost 0. > > > > mimedefang spool is running on a ramdisk, and all the software is at the > > > most recent version > > > > Does this seem like a normal load ? I had hoped that our upgrade from > > solaris 9 to solaris 10 would have drastically improved the number of > > emails the system could process (or lower the load for the same amout of > > > emails), but I don't notice a major improvement. > > > > I'd appreciate your input on this matter. > > > > regards, > > tom. > > > > > Don't confuse the load average figure with 'overloaded' systems. > > the load figure just means X processes are waiting for some resource > (CPU or disk or network or....). > > Depending on your setup you may find it useful to use milter-ahead (or a > free equivalent) to drop email to unknown users before you send it off > to spamassassin etc for further processing. I drop over 2/3rds of my > traffic that way. > > Given it's only 7 seconds to scan the email I'd says your system is more > than handling the traffic being processed. > > -- > Martin Hepworth > Senior Systems Administrator > Solid State Logic > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > > ********************************************************************** > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept > for the presence of computer viruses and is believed to be clean. > > ********************************************************************** > > > -- state of mind Agentur für Kommunikation und Design Patrick Koetter Tel: 089 45227227 Echinger Strasse 3 Fax: 089 45227226 85386 Eching Web: http://www.state-of-mind.de
