> 89 a minute! Wow! What else do you run on that machine? (Do you run your > other email server software there or is it a dedicated SA box? Do you also > run a virus scanner for example?)
Hiya, It runs FreeBSD 4.8 (with SMP kernel of course) and sendmail + SA 3.0.1 - that's it, nothing else apart from mrtg and some perl scripts I run in cron to check the sanity of running processes and generate some stats for me. It used to run SA 2.64, I honestly didn't notice any major increase in system load when I upgraded to 3.0 (which was less than a fortnight ago). We "pipe" MX records through it for customer domains that wish to be spam filtered, it works pretty well. We have another server which is identical in hardware but instead runs postfix + ClamAV. This machine handles a *lot* more mail (not everyone wants their mail piped through our SA server - but they do want it AV checked) and I actually just had a new machine arrive yesterday that I'll be building up to replace it, as that box is quite heavily loaded. I'd actually like to convert our SA server into running postfix, but as it's already running quite nicely with plain old sendmail, it's not something that I really have the need to start mucking around with. Maybe in 6-12 months when we have more domains going through it. The only times I've seen our SA server busy is when there was a network problem, it didn't receive mail for a while then it suddenly got hammered hard when the network connectivity was restored, and the queues started connecting to the box, that's the only time I've wanted more CPU & RAM, that took a fair while for it to work itself out. Cheers Gav
