>Does anyone know what Declude/McAfee or Declude/F-Prot will do to the
>server processor?
Virus scanning uses a lot of CPU time; the effect will depend mostly on
your mail volume.
>I have a PII - 400 with 384MB. Right now it is consistently at 30%
>utilization. How much worse will it get if 10,000 emails are sent a day
>mostly spread out over a 10 hour period?
What else is running on there beside IMail? 30% utilization is usually
quite high for a server that is just handling E-mail.
If you didn't already have a high CPU usage, I wouldn't see a problem
scanning that volume of mail. However, since your CPU usage is already
high, it's hard to say exactly what kind of performance hit you would see
with virus scanning added to the duties of the server. If you want, you
can E-mail me, and I can get you set up with an evaluation version of
Declude Virus, to make sure that would meet your needs.
-Scott
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