I recommend going with the single processor. Recovery in the unlikely event of a main board failure is MUCH easier. Not to mention it will be easier to support a P4 in future than a P3. You're likely to be IO bound more than anything else - so concentration on your storage is important - if you have to make a trade-off, make it in favor of faster storage or better caching therein.
Also, watch out for your nic... It's a small thing, but the speed and reliability of that piece can make or break a mail server. These days memory is cheap... There's almost no excuse any more to have less than 1G in Ram (IMHO) not because you need it now, but because not having it is always worse than having it. This can come in handy when running multiple instances of command line virus scanners or other programs like Message Sniffer. The extra ram also helps when caching these programs and their data - if the box doesn't need to hit the hard drive for this you'll be in great shape. Along those lines, if you want to get clever (or beg for trouble based on your point of view) you might even tweak things a bit by putting your spool directory in a ram-disk... But don't go that far unless you want this box to carry heavy traffic and your power and equipment are stable enough that you won't worry about the spool dir going away. Hope this helps. I'm sure others have different viewpoints to add. _M | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dan Rapaport | Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:46 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [Declude.Virus] OT: Hardware recommendations | | | I'm going to be upgrading from an old version of iMail to a | current one, | and go with Declude Virus.... and either Declude Junkmail or | a seperate | IMGate-MTA type solution. | | So I'm about to order up the new imail-Declude machine and it | looks to me | like I can either go with a dual processor P3 (probably | 1.2GHz) with 512MB | PC133 RAM or a single P4 2GHz or so with 512MB DDR . Given | that the | storage will be the same (Promise RAID controller with 2 7200 | RPM 80GB | drives) I wonder if any of you have any thoughts on what would be the | better choice. | | Thanks for any feedback and I hope this is an appropriate | topic. I would | have gone to the iMail list, but since it will also be | running the Declude | product.... | | --- | [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com . --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
