Re: [exim] Dimensioning a server

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Leonardo Boselli
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Dimensioning a server


Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> At present Ihave a P4 with 1 GB.
> I receive about 40000 messages/day for about 110 users
> besid exim has acteve also pop and imap server, as well squirrelmail.
> e-mail processed whit clamd and spamd
> Often is " suffering" and reply SMTP 451 errors due overload, or have slow
> responses on reading e-mail ( about 70% user and 26% wait time at these
> time)
> What is the kind of machine i should think about to replace it ?
>
>


Exim is very efficient - but hardware is very cheap. I would say get a
dual core AMD or Intel processor, 4 gigs of ram and that should be plenty.