From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 14:13:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCAA416A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:13:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from forrie.com (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.62.205.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC4043D31 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:13:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from forrie.com (i-95.forrie.net. [192.168.1.95]) by forrie.com with ESMTP id i21MDBXF026909; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:13:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Message-ID: <4043B575.6040400@forrie.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:13:09 -0500 From: Forrest Aldrich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040229) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derrick Ryalls References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.3.0(snapshot 20010925) (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com) X-MailScanner-LocalNet: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem performance in Enterprise X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:13:25 -0000 Not trying to start a holy war - just looking into hard facts to support some systems I'm designing. FFS will either work, or it won't. Black or white. The type of I/O I'm talking about will be in the 100's of thousands of email messages (probably more) per day... obviously the underlying OS, filesystem tuning, hardware are also an issue. I'm simply trying to gain some insight into other's experience with FFS, etc. Thanks. Derrick Ryalls wrote: >>Curious how FreeBSD ffs performs in Enterprise-level >>environments (ie: >>email stores that send 100's of thousands of messages per >>day) versus >>other filesystems like XFS (I heard thre's a port going on for >>FreeBSD..?), ReiserFS, et al. Is there a FAQ that covers >>some of this >>and the various tuning issues one might consider (filesystem and >>kernel). This applies either disk-alone or across a raid array, >>etc. I'm interested in hearing others experiences (good and bad). >> >> >> >> > >You are almost starting a holy war :) > >I believe hotmail used to be hosted on FreeBSD until it was bought out by >MS, that should be a decent volume indicator. > >I run a very small email list server and it works fine on a p200. I did see >a noticable jump in speed when I switched the mail service from sendmail to >qmail, so it is also dependant on what you will run. > > >