Re: [exim] Hardware Sizing

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Michael F. Sprague wrote:

>
> Understandable. :)
>
> I'm not doing that much volume at the moment and the last time I was
> running mail servers with that much traffic we were doing everything
> on big Sun servers.
>
> My only recommendation, and I'm sure you're aware of this, is that SA
> needs a lot of horsepower in CPU, RAM and fast drives.
>
> I'm curious if any of the 64bit hardware (and the appropriate OS)
> shows any performance boost for apps like SA, clamd, etc. Hopefully
> someone with experience in this area will post. :)
>
> thanks,
> M
>

From what I'm told there is some advantage to 64 bit but it's a real
advantage once you cross over the 4 gig boundry. And AMD processors
address twice as much ram per cycle than Intel currently does. I think
for SA that memory bandwidth is important.

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