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

Oliver Brandmueller ob at e-Gitt.NET
Wed Jun 23 12:46:14 PDT 2004


Hi.

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 05:45:18PM +0200, Karl M. Joch wrote:
> 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.

Our current setup for exim + amavisd-new incl. SpamAssassin and clamav 
consists of a bunch of boxes with 2.4 GHz Xeon, 2 Gigs of RAM and 3ware 
SATA RAID 10 on 4 10k rpm disks. Each of these machines handles about 
half a million mails per day (though we currently have enough machines 
to load them with only about 300,000 mails per day).

With only 40k mails per day you should not see any problems, but you 
should consider using RAID 1 or RAID 10 because for this task I/O is the 
bottleneck, not so much CPU.

I disabled swapping completely btw.

- Oliver

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