5.2.1 with 40000 virus scanned mails / day on Dell hardware?(Hardware suggestions)

Olivier Tharan olive at oban.frmug.org
Wed Jun 23 09:15:32 PDT 2004


* Karl M. Joch <k.joch at ctseuro.com> (20040623 17:45):
> I need to setup 3 servers on different locations as mail gateway with 
> about 40k mail per day each. the servers runs MailScanner, Clamav and 
> Spamassassin. The customer has Dell hardware and only buys Dell hardware.
> 
> Has anybody experience with Dell servers which runs under FreeBSD. I 
> think about systems with Dual Xeon 3.0, 4 GB Ram and fast SCSI Hot Plug 
> Raid 5 which should be strong enough to handle that amount of mails 
> forwarding them to a Notes server.

If you are looking for 5.2.1, you are on the wrong list.

Anyway, a Pentium III with 256 Mb RAM handles virus scanning and
spam tagging for ~ 60k mails a day without any problem.

Your biggest bottleneck might be the Notes server.

-- 
olive


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