[Mimedefang] Server performance

[Jason Abbott]

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I had posted my specs a week or so ago, but I'll relist them here:
3 compaq ML-370 G2's Each have 2 1.2Gzh P-3, 4 GB ram, 2 9GB mirrored drives 
for os, 2 36GB striped drives for sendmail's spool, 500 meg RAM drive for 
mimedefang (that was formatted ext2 because I was doing some other testing, 
it's back to tmpfs now that I have a developement box), RedHat 7.2, 
Mimedefang 2.21 and Spam Assassin 2.41.  Each one of these machines were able 
to handle the full load of our University's email system.  We have done 
extensive load testing and one of these boxes is capable of processing well 
over 500,000 emails a day. 
Jason

On Friday 25 October 2002 09:30 am, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Fre, 25 Okt 2002, Jason Abbott wrote:
> > Ok, well I said I would get back to you guys with some numbers about our
> > server load.  Yesterday we had a spam bomb of about 255,000 messages hit
> > my spam filters in the space of one hour.  During that time my machines
> > never hit a load over 10, and the longest xdelay of the messages was 35
> > seconds. During that time we also recieved about 50,000 actaul email
> > messages and we didn't lose a single one.  Excellent product, and I'm
> > telling everyone I know that needs a spam filter to use this combination.
>
> Did you use a tmpfs partition for /var/spool/MIMEDefang?
>
> any details about the hardware?

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Jason Abbott
Productions Systems Support
Enterprise IT Services
University of Georgia
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