Date: 13 Apr 2000 07:28:14 +0200 From: Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: high volume mail server hardware suggestions Message-ID: <lwbt3eo9ht.fsf@phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: mpd@bluetie.net's message of "13 Apr 2000 05:28:21 %2B0200" References: <004b01bfa4c7$bd823ee0$c71930d0@hoorj>
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mpd@bluetie.net ("Michael Dungan") writes:
> Does anyone have any suggestions for hardware for running high
> volume e-mail servers with FreeBSD? Should I use a few "large"
> servers, or several smaller ones?
Postfix and FAST disks. In high volume environments the hardware
is IO bound not CPU bound so fast disks are very important.
Look at the postfix-users mailing list archives in www.egroups.com
or www.securepoint.com where there have been several discussions about
performance optimisation for mail servers. Brad Knowles has written
a paper about optimising sendmail, but the general principles are the
same.
Hope this helps.
Simon
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