On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 10:12:03PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 03:57:03PM -0700, 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.
>
> Is this Hardware RAID? Our sysadm could never make RH work on our Dell
> server with RAID. Dell was less than cooperative; they just do not care
> about Linux.
*HARDWARE* RAID
RAID 0 is going to give you the best performance with no safety.
RAID 1 is going to give you the best safety without a large
performance gain.
I'm taking a hard look at RAID 1+0, striping across mirrored pairs.
> Why do not you try one of the servers similar to muncher?
Because with 35K pop+smtp accounts, IO is going to be an issue for the queue.
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