Wietse Venema put forth on 12/9/2010 2:52 PM: > Dave Brodin: >> Thank you very much for the info. I'm really filling in because our >> main system administrator's last day is tomorrow, unfortunately. I >> guess it's 8.2-PRERELEASE (not sure how happy I am to find that out). >> We did try 2.4.10 and it had the same problem. > > I would bet that the problem is not that Postfix is broken, but > rather, that you have a problem with the way FreeBSD talks to your > hardware.
Dave, does the old server have multiple high rpm SCSI or SAS disks in a RAID setup, but the new system has fewer, larger, lower rpm sata disks, possibly without raid striping at all? A substantial drop in storage subsystem IOPS throughput could be a possibility here as well. -- Stan
