V440 or V480 for large email server?

From: LAI Yiu Fai (ccyflai@ust.hk)
Date: Sun Nov 07 2004 - 23:21:25 EST


We are looking for replacing our old 280R server running Sun Java Messaging
Server for around 8000 users. The potential candidate would be a 4-CPUs
V440 or V480 (the newest V490 would be probably out of budget). I know the
main difference would be 1MB vs 8MB L2 cache. However, I have no idea the
L2 cache play a role in email application.

The primary concern is that we will significantly increase the mailbox quota
to 200M-500M per user, and with around 1 TB data attached to our SAN.
Consider handling of large amount of data and highly multithreaded IMAP
server, should I go for UltraSPARC IIIi or UltraSPARC III? Does the L2
cache matter in overall performance?

-Fai
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