[Mimedefang] Server load

Jason Abbott teljanin at uga.edu
Thu Oct 10 12:46:01 EDT 2002


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On a somewhat related note, I will be putting into production a 
mime-defang/spamassassin filter in front of the University of Georgia's email 
system.  We get anywhere from 200k to 300k mails per day with roughly 30 to 
40% spam.  I already have the equipment ready, but we are doing load testing 
now.  The boxes are 3 dual 1.266 gHz P-3 with 4 gig RAM each.  So far it 
looks like we'd only actually need one of the boxes to filter that much 
email, we are using 3 for redundancy and future capacity planning (and 
possibly virus filtering).  I'll let you know how it goes.
 
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Jason Abbott
Productions Systems Support
Enterprise IT Services
University of Georgia
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On Thursday 10 October 2002 12:33 pm, jmiller at purifieddata.net wrote:
> One of my servers is a Athalon 1.2ghz w/ 512mb ram.
> We push an average of 55k messages through a day, and do SpamAssassin,
> File::Scan, and Clam Antivirus checks on them.
>
> I'm not really sure what the top end would be for messages/day for this
> setup, but 12-15k messages a day shouldn't be a problem for your hardware.

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