[Mimedefang] 40K+ emails a day and choking

[Nik Clayton]

David,

David F. Skoll wrote:
> Stephen Ford wrote:
>> I'm running Solaris 9 on a dual processor 220R with 2
>> gigs of ram and the box is having trouble keeping up
>> with spam!?!?
> 
> I hate to say this, but switch from SPARC to a commodity Intel box.
> Intel and AMD chips far outperform SPARC for the kind of processing
> MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin do.  Even a mid-range dual Xeon at 2.4GHz with
> a couple of gigs of RAM can handle 40K emails/day with ease.

Are you aware of any relevant benchmarks in this area?

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