Intel and BlueArc Set New Mail Server Record

louismg writes "With e-mail traffic continuing to explode, Intel and BlueArc announced this morning that the two companies have set a new SPECmail benchmark record in cooperation with CommuniGate Pro, offering a solution that can serve 30 million messages per day - 67% ahead of the previous record, owned by Sun Microsystems. Rather than clustering a lot of smaller servers together, large ISPs can now use fewer systems to handle massive traffic load."

Comments

Not that great

[Matts]

I didn't even know there was a SPECmail, but this figure doesn't seem too outstanding to me.

Firstly I assume this is just a raw delivery setup - no spam or virus filtering. You'd be amazed how much of a difference this makes to any real world setup.

Secondly, apache.org does over 2 million mails a day on a dual 2.4Ghz Xeon using an SMTP server written in Perl. And that's with full anti-virus (clamav) and lots of different anti-spam measures including SpamAssassin (which is known to be slow - I know because I used to be one of the developers).

I also know of commercial setups doing over 50m (legit, well - mostly) mails a day. Using an SMTP Server designed with performance in mind. Perhaps they should submit for SPECmail ;-)

So 30 million doesn't seem terribly amazing to me. Perhaps Communigate Pro isn't a very fast mail server.

Re:Not that great

[antic]

Probably worth noting that the Louis Gray who submitted this story is BlueArc's Corporate Communications Manager.

I thought that the blurb seemed a bit too slick to have come from anywhere but the company themselves. I hope there's no dodgy reason that Louis used a mac.com email address to submit the story instead of their work account.