In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Yo ung, Darren" writes: >Looking for some pointers on sizing a machine to run Spam Assassin on. >This server will be protecting 2 mail servers, one receives an average >of 6 million messages a month, the other around a million. The send side >is around the same but I'm assuming those number don't need to be >considered for sizing an anti-spam server. I guess, that's if only >inbound email is scanned and not outbound. The average hourly comes to >about 173,000 messages, however there are hills and valleys throughout >the day.
Uhmm...173000 an hour is 124 million a month. I'm guessing it's the hourly number that's off, and not the monthly? :-) We have a Sunfire 880 with 6 900MHz cpus in it as our mailserver, we handle about 4 million messages a month (and 2.4 million of that is spam). Amavisd/SA and the virus scans take about 2 CPUs of that capacity, on average. //Christer -- | Tellusgatan 54 | Telefon: Hem 031 - 42 52 03 CTH: 031 - 772 5431 | | 415 19 G�teborg | Epost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nalle: +46 (0)707 535757 | | | WWW: http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~mort/ | "An NT server can be run by an idiot, and usually is." -- Tom Holub, a.h.b-o-i
