> Frankly, I think you'd have to have a pretty hefty amount of processing > to run that many email connections plus policyd plus whatever else might > be running on your mail server (amavisd, spamassassin, etc.) to sustain > that kind of > load. I have two MXes with 4 cores of Xeon 5130 (2.00GHz) each with 8Gb of RAM. Quite enough when all software is writen with C, so no bottlenecks like with spamassassin. The system is 50-70% iddleing, no disks bottlenecks.
> Currently, we have two mail gateways and run spamassassin on a > separate cluster of machines, and will > likely expand to additional servers. The added advantage is that with > enough servers, you can take one down for maintenance or one can fail > without generally having a bottleneck in the throughput. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ policyd-users mailing list policyd-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/policyd-users
