David A Galbraith CIRT wrote:
> Depends, are those 10,000 messages local deliveries? just queued mail
> going out? I am using IDE drives for the qmail queue and NFS for
> the maildir spool space. (On 3 PII/266-350's) and we deliver apx 140,000
> messages a day. (Thats remote and local) ... most of those are incomming
> local messages that go though the qmail queue and deliver onto the NFS
> spool. Most of that is done on only one machine. The people reading all
> share the same 3 machines, we have one other machine that is doing
> listserv deliveries that I am not counting in my 140,000.
>
> If I was delivering locally to local drives, I would use RAID to hold the
> spool space, but probably still use ide to hold the queueing space,
> nothing like hot swaping a drive and not losing any data or even having to
> bring the spool space down. For the load I'm seeing on the IDE disks
> currently doing queueing, I don't see any reason to move to SCSI.
>
> If I was trying to deliver outbound millions of messages a day then I
> would probably talk about moving to SCSI drives or maybe something faster
> than that... but for general use why bother...
>
> On the other hand speaking of delivering these huge mailing lists..
> wouldn't it be more cost effective to purchas a second PC load linux and
> use them both to split the queue load. :) When you can get an entire PC
> for $500 and a SCSI card costs $120+SCSI disk... why not just purchase
> another PC to split the load. That gains you 2 Ethernet channels/2 Memory
> channels/2 xxx/redundance/failover and a boatload of other benifits...
>
> Just my thoughts.
>
> laters,
> -d.
>
Thanks for answer. This was exactly what I was looking for.Andrzej
