Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Raid Controller

[Matt]

Thanks Sandy, dully noted. I do host accounts, but I'm not pushing that side of my business.  Currently it accounts for only about 1/5 of my E-mail volume, the rest is gatewayed and growing.  I'm not sure though if I want to move it to the new box or not though.  I need to do envelope rejection for invalid addresses on gatewayed domains (old discussion), and the work around is using ORF+MS SMTP which can't coexist on the same port as IMail, and I need IMail on port 25 for SMTP AUTH.  The work around may be to configure MS SMTP on port 25 and a unique IP, and IMail on say port 2525 on a unique IP, and have the router do port forwarding on IMail's IP from 25 to 2525.  That way both could co-exist on the same box.  If I can get that to work, I'll move everything over.  Web mail however is rarely used and won't present any challenges.  I guess I could use a Syslog server to take that burden off of the server, and it would be easy to test by turning the logs off and on as far as what that would do.  Declude of course won't syslog for the time being, but I'm buying myself a lot of time I figure. Placing Declude and Sniffer on it's own drive (if RAID 10) is something that I was overlooking and probably should be considered.  So maybe 3 logical drives would seem immediately appropriate and maybe more if conditions warrant. Matt Sanford Whiteman wrote: Can anyone help rate the incremental performance boost of having the page file on a separate drive...I don't figure the server should be doing much with the page file if it has enough memory and is dedicated to E-mail processing. If you're using Web Messaging or Calendaring, virtual memory is _always_ used, regardless of the amount of physical RAM, and in those situations your system will benefit from multiple swapfiles on dedicated spindles. Without WM/WC, your assessment is correct. In addition, if providing WM/WC, performance will skyrocket if you mount \spool\web on dedicated spindles. From your message, however, I sense that you are not providing mailbox services of any kind. how about the log's? Well, think about it: every incoming connection is logged. If the log is on the same drive as the spool: immediate contention. Dedicating spindles to logging, or moving it off the box completely, is a near-mandate for a scaleable architecture. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/download/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/Release/ --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =====================================================