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To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: max kernel memory
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 12:04:22AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
>     A web proxy could be
>     round-robined fairly easily, but for a mail relay it is often a good
>     idea to split the incoming and outgoing mail into two separate round
>     robins (two separate groups of machines).

Why's that?  So you can tune each type of machine appropriately for
the task?  How would you tune incoming and outgoing mail servers
differently?

-- 
 Ben

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