Re: claim: qmail uses more bandwidth

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On 13 Jan 1999, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > I don't know about bandwidth, but I suspect that's not a big issue.
> > vger's hardware is a SPARCclassic w/40MHz CPU, 128Mb RAM and (I believe)
> > a single 3.5Gb disk.  See me other post for information about list size.
>
> That's scary.  My desktop machine is something like five or ten times
> faster than that.  Admittedly, CPU matters hardly at all for mail
> delivery, but still.  Someone should donate a Pentium with a better disk
> layout to the poor people.

What's even more scary is that uptil a couple of years ago it all used to
be run on SunOS 4..  Of course, load was lower then.

All that's really needed is a seperate disk for either CVS or the mail
queue.

Matthew.