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Subject: Re: Window MTA to Postfix - Hardware
From: Andrew McNamara (andrewmconnect.com.au)
Date: Sat Apr 15 2000 - 04:57:45 CDT

>Right now he has a P166, 96MB RAM, and a T1 to the net. I don't know the
>hard drive specs yet. Let's assume IDE drive for the sake of argument.
>
>He also has a 1800 member mailing list on the server. Whenever he
>attempts to send a message to this mailing list the MTA crashes.The vendor
>claims that is because his machine is too old/underpowered to handle that
>size of list. My feeling is that the list isn't large. And that even
>*if* the machine is underpowered the MTA should *never* crash.

The vendor doesn't have a clue. We're running about 120 lists, some
with over 2000 recipients, on an old Sun SparcStation 5 (in my opinion,
these are roughly the speed of a 486) with 64M of ram, and a couple old
2G scsi disks. *Never* has the MTA crashed. Nearly all list postings
are delivered in less than 10 minutes (including those with over 2000
recipients - delays are caused by the recipients, not the list
server). It's running Postfix, of course (it was the first production
machine I put Postfix on).

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Andrew McNamara (System Architect)

connect.com.au Pty Ltd
Lvl 3, 213 Miller St, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9409 2117, Fax: +61 2 9409 2111