I'm late to the game... but why not split the load over a number of servers? Using carp for reduncancy, rdr/round-robin and/or hash, you should be able to spread the load some.
--Toby. On Wednesday, June 29, Jeffrey Lim wrote: > On 6/29/05, Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just spoke with the boss. My boss really "wants to run SMP". He's an > > ill-informed business man and thinks that a single 3 ghz with 4 gb RAM > > couldn't handle our mail server, which I believe it would have no problems > > at all doing. > > > > sounds like somebody who wouldnt know the difference anyway if u just > went right ahead and *not* used smp, and told him otherwise, doesnt > it? > > I'm not saying outright that u should really give up smp - but this is > an option for u. > > -jf > > > 10,000 users isn't that many. > > Either way, if hes set on SMP, then I either need to go to another *BSD > > other than FreeBSD which wont have this problem (such as OpenBSD, although > > do you know whether or not OpenBSD's SMP can support Dual Xeon's?) or > > NetBSD. Otherwise, I have to go to linux or windows which I really don't > > want to do at all. > > > > Thanks again for your help. > > > > Regards, > > > > Matt
