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Young, 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. > > My current thinking is a 2 CPU machine, either 2.2 GHZ Intel or 1.06 GHZ > Sparc, that's expandable to 4 CPU's if necessary. 4 GB of RAM and some > fast (10K RPM) SCSI drives on a dedicated RAID controller. > > On the same subject, I'm still trying to decice between Solaris and > Linux for this machine. I don't want to start a religious war on this > topic, however which would be the better performer for SA? I'd imagine > that'd depend on the Perl deployed and how spamd is compiled as well. I'd definitely recommend linux; Solaris perl has had a number of odd bug reports filed against SpamAssassin which strongly look like platform-specific bugs in perl and various modules SpamAssassin uses. - --j. > Thought and comments welcome, > > Darren Young > Senior UNIX Administrator > University of Chicago > Graduate School of Business > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: 773-702-0331 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFArb52QTcbUG5Y7woRAkqzAKCX4QIXdcgtXD6ztQL+s93SNku4bACgrYMt W/W9qHI78iENuvE7aoayy7E= =Afg4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
