Greetings all, We're building a new mail server (haven't decided between iMail and SmarterMail yet) and are wondering if anyone has had experience running these two products on the new dual-core CPUs.
There's been a lot of talk about CPU consumption being out of hand in the iMail world (it happens to us a few times a week with web messaging), making dual-core even more attractive. The problem is that I've used a SmarterMail machine on a dual-proc 3.8 gHz Xeon and it was so screaming fast my ears were burned. ;-) The fastest dual-core available in a 2-socket Dell box is 2.8 gHz, so that gives you 4 cores or 11,200 mHz. Trim that back 30 percent (just a guess) because multiple procs/cores don't scale linearly, and you get a tad faster than the combined 7600 mhz of the dual single-core 2.8's. So, I'm leaning towards the 2 x dual core procs. We're talking 2000 users, growing to 6000 within a couple years. Web messaging usage fairly low (mostly pop), but unpredictable at this point. In the spirit of sharing, any comments? To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
