From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 9:12:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (93-MADR-X45.libre.retevision.es [62.82.47.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE8B37B5D1 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:12:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjmudd@pobox.com) Received: by phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 1FD7436F6; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 07:28:15 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: high volume mail server hardware suggestions References: <004b01bfa4c7$bd823ee0$c71930d0@hoorj> From: Simon J Mudd Date: 13 Apr 2000 07:28:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: mpd@bluetie.net's message of "13 Apr 2000 05:28:21 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Simon J Mudd, Madrid SPAIN Tel: +34-91-408 4878 email: sjmudd@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message