On 15-May-98 Peter Chen wrote:
> Currently our ISP's Solaris server is hosting all the 4000+ email accounts
> for our staff and clients. Recently the management wants to move all the
> email accounts in-house for better control and confidentiality, but doesn't
> want to pay a Sun Enterprise Server, so they are thinking of running NT and
> Exchange Server 5.5. But I manage to persuade the management to use Red Hat
> Linux 5.5 instead.
> - Should I patch kernel 2.0.33 with file-descriptor patch and recompile a
> new kernel?
you'll probably run out of file handles if you don't modify the kernel. we had
that problem during a network outtage when sendmail tried to dequeue the jammed
mail. and we only have ~300 users.
> - Can a Pentium II 233Mhz, Intel 440LX chipset, 256MB RAM, Asustek SC875
> UW SCSI controller, two IBM Ultrastar 9GB UW SCSI hard disks do the job?
no prob. we use a p133 w/ 64 mb for 300 mail users, squid, DNS, radius and some
accounting.
bye,
tom
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