You might also look at Solaris X86. I've just brought up such a box,
and am impressed with the performance relative to Linux on the same box.
jay
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. 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.
