On Thu, 23 May 1996 08:03:37 -0400 (EDT) "Jason A. Dour"
<jad@bcc.louisville.edu> said:
> Well... The machine this probably would run on would start out
>as a two CPU high integer performance IBM AIX machine with capability to
>go to ten processors. Memory would probably start at 128M or 256M. After
>that, upgrading could happen if necessary. How's that? 8) With this much
>horsepower doing only mail routing and listserving, is this a moot
>point?
LISTSERV will only take a few percent of the system unless you have a
really old machine. The real issue is mail delivery, and if you're using
sendmail it is mostly limited by the amount of RAM in the box. Adding
CPUs doesn't usually help, again with current systems. Even with a
RS/6000-250 you can do some 150k average daily deliveries and have unused
cycles. You probably want to choose hardware for which RAM is cheap, and
avoid systems where you pay a premium for high-speed memory modules with
state of the art caches that scale up to many processors that you'll
never install. If this is going to replace ULKYVM, your daily average is
currently 65k deliveries and a RS/6000-250 (or whatever the 1996 version
is called) would be just fine. 64M might be enough initially but I'd
start with 128M and two 7200rpm drives.
Eric
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