Sounds reasonable...do you have a url to a trustable supplier?
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:08:43 -0800
> From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)
>
> * Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010207 13:42] wrote:
> >
> >
> > Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errors....it seemed. Only thing I do not
> > like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then
> > does not try any others...."default"....yes there is still backlog with
> > #'s I gave you. Right now 8 min to get an email from sending...
>
> I don't think Matt means 'backlog' as in latency, I think he means
> backlog as in your backup MX's queing mail for you while you rebooted
> and installed FreeBSD.
>
> If you have that much mail _incoming_ then every time you sneeze
> and stop processing the queue even for a few seconds you can suddenly
> wind up with a massive amount of inocming mail the second your
> server comes online again. This will swamp you and knock the box
> over.
>
> > > :ps. 600 megs of email was calculated in 1 day on this machine...today i
> > > :will be splitting up the load and looking into vinum.
>
> Get a hardware raid card, you can even get a bootable IDE RAID,
> although hotswap scsi means less downtime.
>
> For a project this big you're really being pretty thrifty with the
> hardware allocated to it. The time you save hacking on the system
> to fix performance problems could be addressed much quicker by
> buying somewhat more robust hardware, once that's addressed you
> can move on to the next project.
>
> IDE raid (striping) won't cost more than three to five hundred
> dollars including the disks you need.
>
> --
> -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
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