[Mimedefang] Estimate of maximum messages via MD
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Mar 12 16:54:09 EST 2004
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.
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