Re: High volume mail handling architecture
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:43:21AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> On Sep 9, 2004, at 2:44 AM, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> >
> >More than 90% of the disk transactions are on the (logical) disk where
> >mail is stored. The only processes which touch that disk, are qmail
> >delivery processes (qmail handed mail by another SMTP-IN box: 0.8 local
> >deliveries per second) and courierpop3d processes (7.2 logins per
> >second).
> >
>
> Start splitting the user directories across logical disks that are on
> different platters, for goodness sake.
Well, adding more disks to the setup is what I planned to do next. I
just want to make sure that the performance I get from the _current_
setup is normal.
Marcin
--
Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/
GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216
Reply to: