[CentOS] e-mail serving
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.comWed Aug 3 18:33:00 UTC 2011
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On 8/3/2011 1:13 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > the HP DL180G6 is a nice box for those requirements. 2U server that > can be configured with up to 2x6 core Xeon 5600 series processors, and > up to 96GB ram without using really expensive memory (has 12 memory > slots, 6 per CPU socket, so 6x8gb gets you 48GB, 12x8gb gets you 96gb), > and has either 12 x 3.5" SAS/SATA or 25 x 2.5" SAS/SATA hotswap drives. > > a million emails/day is an average of 12/second every single second of > the day. I'd wager your file system had better be able to handle 3-4 > times that so that bursts are handled gracefully. I'd definately > recommend using raid10 with a fair number of disks for this as that's > lots of small file creates. Your other problem will be dealing with all the spam you'll get if the email addresses are visible anywhere (and maybe even if they aren't). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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