About capacity management
Determine how many MTAs and
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Servers are needed to ensure that your message architecture can accommodate a peak message load. A conservative estimate of the amount of traffic a Network Prevent for Email
Server can handle is approximately 20 messages per second or up to 30 megabits per second of throughput. Differences in the characteristics of the message stream affect the performance of an individual Network Prevent for Email
Server. These differences can be the distribution of message sizes and message content types. As you become more familiar with the characteristics of your traffic, you can adjust capacity plans appropriately.When
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Servers operate in reflecting mode, Prevent-integrated MTAs handle each outbound message twice, which adds to their processing and CPU load.