On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 4:28:35 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: > Hey list, > I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by > my > boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the > upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup > was hitting load max they found some cash for me... :D
> We are in a university environment with over 100,000 mails daily. > What Im currently looking at is either 2 Sun v150s or 2 dual-opterons > probably with a gig each, and the standard 80+gigs. > Which one will be better suited to SA? I know SA is more cpu/ram than > disk IO so im leaning more toward the AMD approach. The reason there are > 2 machines of each is because im gonna implement fail over using > heartbeat. Does it make a difference the Solaris / Linux route? Will SA > benefit from the dual processor option? Any other factors I should consider? In general, I'd recommend Linux on AMD. Unix type operating systems often benefit from multiprocessing, especially recent Linux/BSD/etc kernels that have deeper support for multiple processors built in. I'm sure other folks have some more ideas. BTW were you able to get your local mirroring of the SURBL zones working well? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/
