[Mimedefang] 40K+ emails a day and choking

Michael Lang michi+mimedefang at relay3.jackal-net.at
Tue Jan 17 10:49:44 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 14:48 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 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.

at my last company we did with 4 machines, 3Mil/Day Messages without any
problem. The machines where HP DL360 2G Ram 1 CPU ;)

> 
> Are you aware of any relevant benchmarks in this area?
> 
> N
> 
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