[CentOS] How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails perday

[Mike Kercher]

I think I would do RAID5 over RAID1 since you'll get more spindles.  I'd
also consider multiple cores and LOTS of RAM.

Mike
 

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> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Erick Perez
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:52 PM
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> Subject: [CentOS] How to size an email server to handle 5 
> million emails perday
> 
> I have no idea as to how to size an email server. I was 
> approached by a customer that wanted a single server with 
> RAID 1 disks to handle about 5 million emails a day.
> In general terms, what parameters should I take into account 
> to size the hardware specs when the average email is about 
> 10kb, the smalles email is 2kb and the largest email is about 
> 5meg (with attachment)
> 
> thanks,
> 
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