From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 14:34:06 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 9E5CC16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:34:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net [65.41.216.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC4643D46 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:34:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gv-list-freebsdquestions@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 10028 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2004 22:34:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by major.mygirlfriday.info with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 1 Mar 2004 22:34:05 -0000 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 16:34:04 -0600 From: Gary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1780000.1078180444@[192.168.0.5]> In-Reply-To: <4043B575.6040400@forrie.com> References: <4043B575.6040400@forrie.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem performance in Enterprise X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:34:06 -0000 Hi Forrest, --On Monday, March 01, 2004 05:13:09 PM -0500 Forrest Aldrich wrote: > 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. Yahoo uses FreeBSD and qmail, and they deliver in the millions daily.. 100s of 1000s per day is nothing for a good MTA and OS like FreeBSD. -- Gary