Jeff Chan wrote:
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.
yeah thats what i was thinking
I'm sure other folks have some more ideas.
BTW were you able to get your local mirroring of the SURBL zones working well?
Im a systems guy so im still waiting on my network co-horts to get back to me. They want to see how the load of the bind files works out before they venture into rbldnsd, i dont have an account on our DNS so I'll have to make a case for it to be installed on the DNS otherwise I could just setup a local machine and have the DNS point to it...
I'm looking forward to it though as it should take a load off our mailhubs until the new systems arrive (2mnths+)
ronan
Jeff C.
-- Regards
Ronan McGlue ============== Analyst/Programmer Information Services Queens University Belfast BT7 1NN
