Len Conrad wrote: > >Box 1 > > Pentium III 550 w/ 64 megs 100 Meg Connection > > This is dumb, 64 megs in an NT machine meant to provide high volume mail > services. Yeah i know, i was just using this for a comparison purpose of low memory to high memory. > > > >Box 2 > > Pentium III 550 w/ 256 megs 100 Meg Connection > > This is reasonable. > > >Each message is at most 512 bytes in size not including headers. > > Figure 2 to 3 kbytes per msg on average, all headers included, since a msg > can't go anywhere without the headers. > > >How many mail messages could each box send out in an hour? > hmmm, it's a question of protocols, really. The server would only be sending out mail. Clients don't access the server at all. It's a machine that is gonna essentially mail out updates every night. Approx. 25000 to start but are going to need to handle 1,000,000+ shortly, and have an hour to do it. We are probably going to have several machines doing the work, but we want to know how many and how powerful. Is that 5% the xeon is only using 5% because there is a bottleneck sending out the messages or because Imail is sending out the messages faster than users are creating messages to be sent out? Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list.
