From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 15:31:34 CDT

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Ralf Hildebrandt:
> * Gabriel Rocha <gabeneutraldomain.org>:
> > Could some folks who have the system described in
> > http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/newdoc/SMTPD_PROXY_README.html
> > give an idea of what kind of bandwidth and hardware they run it in?
> > The howto says "low traffic" systems, which is fine... But it does
> > raise the question "what is low traffic?" and what hardware for that
> > traffic sufices? 1Ghz p3's for 30k messages per day? I am just
> > looking for an idea. Thanks in advance. --Gabe
>
> Won't work.

30k messages per day is 2 messages/second on average, but
peaks will be higher, more like 10-20/s. Remember, this is
real-time filtering.

I agree, not a chance.

        Wietse

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