On 2011-10-03, at 6:08 AM, Simon Loewenthal <si...@klunky.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi there, > > I have to set-up a few low power SA boxes. Currently I'm used to > using Intel Xeon 2.6Ghz with 16Gb of memory, but these proposed boxes > are small. I won't buy one unless I know it can do the job. I know the > figures below are tiny, but I don't know the Intel Atoms and what they > can really do. > > # of active Email addresses (excluding Email aliases) : 80 > # of messages (including rejected) appox 3,500 daily > running : Debian/ SA 3.3.1 and spamass-milter (with MTA postfix, > clamav-milter). > > > hardware: > http://soekris.eu/shop/net6501_en/ > 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom E660 (1 core, 2 threads) > 1024Mb RAM > Transcend mSATA SSD 32Gb MLC > > Cheers for any commentary. > > Best regards, Simon. I would also recommend turning off as many network checks as possible in SA due to redundant and blocking I/O taking up the majority of SA's processing times. You could also try enabling the compile rule plugin (Rules2XS I believe?) and running sa-compile, however, our in-production benchmarks did not record any performance increases, but it may help you squeeze some slight fraction of performance increase from your server. >
