Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sun's filesystem is dog-ass slow. I wouldn't be suprised if Linux > on old hardware beats the pants off the Sun, in terms of filesystem > performance. Go install Courier-IMAP on the Linux box, it'll > probably be faster than the Sun. Courier-IMAP is a rather thin layer > between IMAP and the filesystem, so all your performance tuning > belongs in the operating system. -- Sam
Not helped by the fact that so many serious Sun sites don't use UFS for filesystems like this, they use VxFS (veritas). But if they had the budget for that, they'd probably not be using a fairly ancient Sun system (E3000 is pretty old, by modern standards). Also, the RAID device may be pretty slow. RAID 5 is not speedy unless you have a lot of cache. Was the Linux box RAID 5? If it wasn't, that may be most of the performance issues in one. Going to a Sun from a Linux box doesn't necessarily speed things up! Unless you have the money for a SERIOUSLY large Sun, anyway. You buy a Sun for the good hardware and for the support, and for reliability, not for price/performance ... -Matt _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
