On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > Is anyone running qmail on a FreeBSD or Linux PC with that kind of
> > > load?
> >
> > Probably, although it wouldn't be a single box, and probably not running
> > a free Unix.
>
> Why not?
No (or few) technical reasons. The same reasons that my work uses Solaris
for everything expect a few routers and lightly loaded proxies. By the
time you deal with 1M mails a day (and not mailing list traffic) you want
a little more resilience to whatever failures may come..
> > The congressional stuff runs on, I think, 8 (was that 18?) Exchange boxes.
>
> Hmm - MS's ftp site runs on 40 NT boxes, and - at the release for
> Win98, I believe - set the record for number of bytes shipped per
> day. It was surpassed a few months later by cdrom.com, running on a
> single 200MHz FreeBSD box.
>
> With that as a guideline, I'd expect a single FreeBSD box to be able
> to handle the load of 8 Exchange boxes.
Sure. I'd have Linux instead, but I can't imagine either having
significant difficulty pissing all over NT/Exchange.
Matthew./
