[Mimedefang] 40K+ emails a day and choking

[David F. Skoll]

Nik Clayton wrote:

>> 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?

I don't have actual benchmarks, but we've had a couple of CanIt customers
who tried both and switched to Intel/AMD boxes.  They cited better
performance/price.

Regards,

David.