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Re: marking dynamic ranges, was fixing insecure email infrastructure


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:51:43 -0500

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:43:06 PST, "J.D. Falk" said:

      (I'm also surprised you need 300 servers to handle such a small
      load -- what is that, ~3333 messages per server per day?)

Some mail software scales better than others. ;)

And yes, we *DID* have one large software vendor admit that at the time,
they'd need a 300-system cluster to handle all our 70K users.  We ended up
with a single Sun system instead.  Not sure if said vendor scales any better now -
we have like 6 or 7 machines to handle the 2,000 or so users we have on their
package (but that's including test and backup boxes...)

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