Re: Mail server load
Mariano Wahlmann <wahlmann@agro.uba.ar> wrote
> Hy, i'm Administrator of an University, and my mail (pop/imap) server
> has 5-6 average LA, the machine is an Dual Pentium Xeon of 2.4Ghz, with
> 1Gb of RAM, and one UW-SCSI 320 of 36Gb. My domain has 4000 email
> accounts, and 5 list of 3000 local users (that send one or two email by
> day). The problem is that users gets TIMEOUT everytime that try to
> download emails, etc etc..
E-Mail (and especially with MTAs like postfix and qmail) is IO-bound. You need
more disks to spread the load on more spindles.
by
Töns
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