> I believe that RAID6 comes under the same performance limitations of > RAID5. For applications where data performance must be the highest, > RAID10 is your best option. The problems of the other RAIDs can be seen > here: http://www.baarf.com/
As the person who asked the original question, I should probably clarify. Disk I/O isn't a very big concern for me; I can use high-speed fibre- connected SAN if need be. What I'm more concerned about is the processor power and memory. When making an insert, how efficient are the database designs? Will it take a while updating indices from a computational standpoint? Is there any kind of significant delay feeding mail into the databases, so delivery time might be noticeably longer? Is there anyone out there using DBmail with a large site-wide configuration like I mentioned? We have about 9000 accounts, deliver about 1GB of mail daily, and have bursts of up to 100 emails delivered per second (not to the same account though). If so, I'd love to hear about your experiences. Thanks, Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Lindsey Technical Program Manager National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
