On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 11:46, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote: <snip> > Or imagine you have a mailserver running Fedora + postfix + spamassassin > + amavisd for a domain that has about 1000 users. In my last work , we > had a mailserver (Pentium 4 , 2.8Ghz , 1Gb ram) running suse + > postfix+spamassassin and it works fine. We know that we need a especial > machine only for running amavisd (we were on a subdomain of the > university. The main server for the university was a dual xeon server > and it usually didnt survive the workload caused by amavis). So , 3Ghz > may be the *minimum* in certain circunstances.. > > So , it may be overpowered in some circunstances.. like for my mother , > who uses her computer only to read e-mail and browse the net (but she > uses a 486 DX2 80mhz for that)... Anything above 400Mhz would be > unnecessary for her... I have to agree. My desktop is a 333Mhz P2, which runs everything I need. My mail server however is a dual xeon box (running smp kernel). Friday evening I was alerted that the load was well over 900 on each prcessor. Yeah we run mailscanner, spamassassin, with exim. Looking through the logs we were getting hit by 5 spammers at once (Plus alot of virus traffic).
