On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Sean Rietze wrote:
> OK, little advice. Getting ready to order a Dell Poweredge 2300 machine
> to run qmail and about 35,000 pop accounts on.
>
> Like some advice on the setup of the disks:
>
> Base machine will be dual 400 with 512MB RAM running RH 5.2
You'd be better off with two seperate boxes rather than a single dual
processor box.
You are going to be I/O bound before you ever run out of processor.
Make one a POP server, and one the mail server.
> My questions are about the mail spool and queue areas.
> My thoughts have been dual-controller DPT card (32MB cache onboard)
I use DPT PM3334UW's for redundancy(RAID 0+1) but not for speed. They
aren't particularly fast cards in my experience.
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