[Mimedefang] Server load

[Steve Hanson]

Likewise - at University of Wisconsin River Falls we're running 
about 30k emails per day through a
dual-processor 1.1gig P3 with a gig of ram.  We're also using 
uvscan for virus scanning, which is really inefficient. The 
system hardly even breaks a sweat except for during waves of 
spam, when it sometime runs as much as 30% busy for a while. 
We're also running between 30 and 50% spam depending on who is 
trying to sell stuff to students that week.

Jason Abbott wrote:
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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:
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>>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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