You could run dual CPU's but that depends on what kind of growth you expect, I suppose. If you can afford it, go dual and double the RAM. Better safe than sorry. I personally would likely run duals and at least 2G of RAM. If you plan on RAID, I'd go hardware RAID SCSI. I'd probably stay away from IDE RAID as they are generally still software driven (in the driver). The key thing is to leave plenty of room on /var. This is where the mail comes in and if you're storing mail on that server you need space. If you lock in /var too small then you have get creative to get more space. Leave yourself room to grow. If you plan on Webmail, have a decent size /home partition as most will store folders in the user's homedir. <<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Laurie Harper" <l.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:03:37 -0600 Subject: RE: Dedicated Mailserver - Hardware Recommendation > > Depends a lot on your email server software. > > > > We run Exim with spamassassin, amivis, clamscan, and courier > > imapd. For webmail squirrelmail is nice, but so is Neomail. > > We'll be running Sendmail, and probably Sophos and Spam Assassin. > Webmail is undetermined yet. > > > It's a whitebox running a tyan motherboard and dual AMD procs > > with 512Mb Ram. We run it with RAID 1 with SCSI drives. It > > handles about 2200 email accounts includeing the spam and > > anti-viral scanning and doesn't ever top out over .25 > > So would you expect processing or memory to be more crucial for this > application? The initial specs recommended to us was a single 1.3 GHz > CPU and 1 GIG of RAM. Should we consider dual-CPU's instead? > > > We also had a client's exchange server runnning on the same > > type of hardware with around 1000 clients, and it kept the > > box very busy (%50 proc utilization and very little free RAM). > > > > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 12:48, Laurie Harper wrote: > > > We currently serve both email and http off of our client server. We > > > are planning to migrate email to a dedicated server. We have around > > > 800 user accounts, and this will be growing. We plan to add virus > > > scanning and a web-based email solution. I would love to get some > > > opinions on hardware specs for this purpose - CPU, Memory and disk > > > configurations in particular. Any advice is appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > Laurie Harper > > > Dealer ImpactR Systems > > > WWWeb Impressions, LLC > > > 7725 Douglas Ave > > > Urbandale, IA 50322 > > > (515)334-9638 ext.15 > > > http://www.dealerimpact.com > > > http://www.webimpressions.com > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > This message (including any attachments) contains confidential > > > information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is > > > protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, > > you should > > > delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, > > > copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of > > any action > > > based on it, is strictly prohibited. > > -- > > Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Warp Drive Networks > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
