[Mimedefang] Estimate of maximum messages via MD

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:

> I am involved with an OSS project that is in desperate need of a tool
> like MD. Traffic is heavy, say in the order of 100k messages per day.
> Does any one use MD to handle this load and what configuration is
> needed?

MD plus SpamAssassin on a dual-XEON 2.4GHz box with 2GB of memory can
handle around 250-300K messages/day.  We've actually benchmarked this
configuration at 25 messages/second (which works out to around 2 million/day),
but that was under "ideal lab conditions".

Regards,

David.