Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:53:40 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: "'Forrest Aldrich'" <forrie@forrie.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD filesystem performance in Enterprise Message-ID: <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A23A@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4043802F.4030301@forrie.com>
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> 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.home | help
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