* Matt Bernstein: > I try to avoid r/w contention by using full data journalling with external > journals, which are on physically different (and hopefully faster) HDDs. I > believe this is good practice for synchronous I/O like mail and NFS.
If you want to throw money at the problem, a RAID controller with a battery-backed cache is a good option as well. On the other hand, with a lot drives in their default configuration, fsync() can't reliably do what it claims to anyway. 8-/ -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
