----- Original Message ----- > >Dual Processor Intel Xeon, 2.8GHz w/512K Cache > >512MB DDR,200MHZ,2X256MB DIMMS > > a total waste of money. Why do you think the Imail server will need such > computing power?
I haven't a clue - hence the post to this list. > >Hardware RAID with 128MB Battery Backed Cache, 2 Internal Channels > > why not 256 Mb? Beats me. If neither iMail or the OS would benefit from it, might as well remove it. > >Dual Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Server Adapters > > Your mail traffic is 1 Gbit/sec? No, but some of our switches are and all of them might be at some point. > >Is that the best? Or if not, what is ideal? > > Depends on what your traffic is. I bet you are going tell us this box will > absolutely have to handle .... 2000 msgs/day and 500 accounts. :)) Beats me again. I'm not the main admin of the mail server (lucky for us I guess :>). The sys log files are about 100MB per day with a lot of options being logged. The iMail folder is about 8.8GB with 45,000+ files and 8,800+ folders. I've no idea how our configuration and volume compares to others - I'd be curious to hear though. > Adaptec 2400A and 2 RAID1 pairs of 7200 RPM drives in will do the job and > save you many, many $000's. and alternative would be two Promise SX4000's, > each with 256 Mb cache. The current hardware RAID 5 SCSI (64MB cache) is getting beat to death with out current traffic. > If you have really a busy mailbox server, then offload the AV to a > dedicated AV box and the anti-abuse to an MX gateway like IMGate. This > will be cheaper and have more reliability and throughput, but I know > wasting big $$$$ on one SPOF Godzilla box is lotsa more fun. You also get > to compete credibly in "mine is bigger than yours" contests :)) We were thinking about using LSOFT as a gateway to offload the SMTP traffic. Any thoughts on that idea? thanks bk --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] 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/
