Dear Marilen Corciovei, > first allow me to thank you for putting together all these tools for > simple installation and use. Yet I am having a question related to how > much overhead these architecture can impose upon a machine. I am > planning to buy the opencomputing platform for use on a system with a > max of 100mails/sec. Can such a thing be doable? What hardware > architecture do you suggest. I'd like to get some more info on your requirements: 1) What are the other software you're planning to run on the openprotect machine? Is it just a relaying mail server through which mails are scanned by openprotect and sent to a POP3/IMAP store or a server which runs the mail server, POP3, IMAP and also a webmail?
There is no other required software running on these machines, these will be dedicated relay only servers.
No. We are considering distributing the weight on a few 2 or 4 processor machines.2)Do you already have a mail gateway which is handling 100 mails/sec? If yes, more details on your current hardware will help us in specifying the hardware for openprotect.
3)What is the average size of each mail? How many such mails do you transfer per day? Because, if all the 100 mails/sec are 2 KB mails, the load is very less. On the other hand, if they're 1 MB, then the load is going to be very high.
No, only the peek is estimated at 100 mails/sec which correspond to around a max of 3 milions messages per day. The messages repartition will be normal with only about 2-3% of messages > 1M.
cheers, Karthikeyan, S.
Thanks for your help
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