From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 10:37:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF70816A4CE for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 10:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.citytel.net (gumby.citytel.net [204.244.98.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A9D43D1D for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 10:37:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from pop.citytel.net (pop.citytel.net [204.244.98.50]) by gumby.citytel.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A010023734A for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 10:37:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:37:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Server with largish disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:37:36 -0000 We are looking at putting in a newish server to replace an aging one. Its a POP3/Webmail machine, running BSD/OS One I'd like has 4 x 9gig and 4 x 18gig drives, 2 x 733mhz cpus. Only have about 2500+ active mail accounts on this machine but it is running low on space and we have lots of those accounts being access'd via Openwebmail. Mail spool is /var/mail Question is what would be a good way to partition the drives in the above configuration? I would like acutally to use 3 x 18 gig drives as /var with the 4th as the hotspare and the rest of the file systems (/ /usr) on 3 x 9gig with the 4th as hotspace. Is this a workable way to do it? Also since this has dual cpu's, how is the SMP support in FBSD 5.2? ie: how stable is it? Will the OS take advantage of having the two cpu's? Or would that depend on the software (Postfix, Qpopper (though that maybe replaced) ) to use the xtra cpu? Thanks, Keith