Re: [Exim] New Server Specs?

At 08:14 -0400 Jeffrey Wheat wrote:

>Hello all, I would like to get a few opinions for building my next
>mail server. I am presently running a dual processor, PIII-833
>with 1.5G RAM and 3ware disk controller running FreeBSD. I am noticing
>a performance issue when trying to run sopie/spamassassin together.
>The problem is that perl consumes most of the cpu while spamassassin
>is enabled, thus driving the system load to well over 16.5. With just
>sophie running, the load stays around 0.5 - 1.0. The server needs to be
>able to handle around 350,000 mails a day, running Exim, Courier IMAP,
>Sophie and SpamAssassin.

Sounds like you should try to persuade SpamAssassin to daemonise, like
Sophie does. If you can pay someone to do that, maybe it'd cost less than
your quad Xeon!