Maybe you can suggest optimal configuration for mail server?
It will be used for spam/virus filtering (~4000 mail accounts), proxy
server (~100 clients). I think it's enought with 1CPU DL 145 system, but
local dealer gives 2nd CPU for free for DL 385 :)
Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2006/03/14 22:50, Srebrenko Sehic wrote:
On 3/14/06, edgarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I will be a very happy if those two servers (DL 145 and DL 385) will
work. Means hardware will detect and work without strange things, like a
slow hdd system, unusable raid or similar crap :)
I would choose the SCSI version of DL145 G2, since SATA has
performance issue (around 6MB/sec read/write with dd). It could be
fixed in 3.9. I dunno.
SATA was still slow on these mid-feb (exact date in kernel/4613) and I didn't
notice anything in changelogs since.
NB the DL145 are neither hotswap nor simple-swap: you must open the case
to gain access to the drives. On the + side, it does have IPMI and lights
out (NIC and serial-based too if you get the single [shared] serial port
assigned correctly in BIOS).
With X2100, if you want >1 NIC you get to choose between nfe or a PCIE card.
Various other vendors (fully-built and 'barebones' e.g. Tyan, Supermicro)
have boxes which are more interesting for many purposes, I haven't had any
to try OpenBSD on though. I'd be quite interested to hear any reports
about the Supermicro AS1010S-MR (H8SSL-i board: Serverworks HT1000).
As usual there's no one-size-fits-all..
