Hello all,
I've been lurking here for a little while, and haven't seen this kind of thing come up, so I was curious if anyone has any suggestions about it. One of the companies we do backend work for has a very busy mail server - averages probably 50 messages/minute, with peak burst periods of about 100-110 messages/minute. Running spamc/spamd on that box resulted in huge load averages (30-40 or more) at peak time, and loads of 15 or 16 at normal time.
We are in the process of revamping things, and will probably move to a distributed spamd, but we are also thinking about replacing the mail server itself. We need a little more juice to do other things like running clamd and whatnot. I was just wondering what hardware other people are using for this volume of email - ~75000 emails/day, some days more (especially when one of these worms pops up it's head). Right now it's running on an smp AMD K7 or so, but we're looking for suggestions for upgrade.
Thanks for any advice on this,
Stephen
I know of serveral sites that use Dual 2ghz Xeon's and handle this of load regularly. BUT they use MailScanner to front end SA, which I think can be tuned for high loads better than using spamd on it's own....
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