Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 14:50:37 -0500 (EST) From: Intuitive Design Archive <archive@in-design.com> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: Christian Alfredsson <christian.alfredsson@alingsas.se>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Mailserver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970308144823.20395B-100000@nero.in-design.com> In-Reply-To: <199703080510.WAA09660@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > Christian Alfredsson writes: > > I'm the mailmaster of nero.alingsas.se. Today we have a HP Vectra 133Mhz > > with 64MB memory and 4Gb harddisk. We only use it for popper and it's not > > possible to telnet and so on to it... We have had a little problem with the > > hardware so we want't to change the server. I have thought of the following > > configuration for the new server > > > > Pentium Pro 200 Mhx > > 128 MB Ram > > 2 * 2 Gb harddisk on separate SCSI-cards > > Good god, you must be kidding. For a mailserver? Keep in mind that all > your system needs to be able to do is keep up with the ethernet card > running at 1 megabyte/sec. Unless you're using a 100Base-TX network, > any old Pentium 100 with 16 or 32 Megs RAM and an IDE drive big enough > to hold a basic installation of FreeBSD (say 200 megs) plus your mail > spool will probably handle the load just fine. > > Anyone here in FreeBSD land think I'm nuts? > Let's hear the opposition. ;^) > I dunno, unless the mail program is something running on NT, you might need this :) j/k But this seams a bit over-kill for mail. U of Pittsburgh has some 45K accounts, and they use a lowely little sparc 5 for all their mail. Makes me wonder how many users the above will accomedate? Any idea? Intuitive Design Archive http://www.in-design.com archive@in-design.com
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