C300 box sizing -performance

[yanir_ironport]

Hi

Is there anyone who can advice regarding ,how many msg/min /hour -i can reach with this machine without getting a long delays .

I need to know few parameters since i want to tell applications that send mail through the box how to behave .

Thanks

[steven_geerts]

Hello,

We had an incident last day that caused 2 of our incoming C650 to be unreachable from the internet (this was a firewall problem, not an Ironport problem :twisted: .)

The interesting thing about this was that we had to process the majority of our incoming mail on one C650. We have another C650 processing our outgoing mail that is also in the MX records with a lower preference, that device catches always some spam from the internet.

The incident showed us that the one C650 "just" can handle the complete load with only little delays (we measured no delays longer that 10 minutes). I think that we have touched the boundaries of the performance of the device today and I would like to share the details with you.

If you copy and past the SNIP data below into Excel you get an idea of the load we processed on one device during the incident.

We run CASE, Sophos and Reputation filter on the box, we do not use LDAP and have an external (high speed) caching DNS.

Enjoy!

Steven





******SNIP******
Begin Timestamp,End Timestamp,Begin Date,End Date,Stopped by Reputation Filtering,Stopped as Invalid Recipients,Spam Detected,Virus Detected,Stopped by Content Filter,Clean Messages
1221462000.0,1221465599.0,2008-09-15 07:00 GMT,2008-09-15 07:59 GMT,120319,10,2353,4,89,23377
1221465600.0,1221469199.0,2008-09-15 08:00 GMT,2008-09-15 08:59 GMT,131761,23,2888,7,178,30281
1221469200.0,1221472799.0,2008-09-15 09:00 GMT,2008-09-15 09:59 GMT,98428,11,2613,7,95,30546
1221472800.0,1221476399.0,2008-09-15 10:00 GMT,2008-09-15 10:59 GMT,103656,13,3275,2,142,24549
1221476400.0,1221479999.0,2008-09-15 11:00 GMT,2008-09-15 11:59 GMT,124044,2,3631,2,223,25648
1221480000.0,1221483599.0,2008-09-15 12:00 GMT,2008-09-15 12:59 GMT,129838,5,3538,5,103,28427
1221483600.0,1221487199.0,2008-09-15 13:00 GMT,2008-09-15 13:59 GMT,130242,5,3108,1,66,12390
******END SNIP*****

[SJensen_ironport]

-C150 ~150,000 a day 
-C350 ~1,000,000 a day
-C650 ~2,000,000 a day

Generally the performance was doubled for the C350 and C650 and almost doubled for the C150.  These are just my estimates based on some production performance, of course these volumes can vary based on items like the number of TCP connections etc. etc.  Of course these numbers are based on every feature turned on.

Sincerely,

Jay Bivens
IronPort Systems

Hi Jay

Do you have any performance numbers on the new X1060 and C660 boxes?

Best,
Steen.