Re: QMail Performance Question & Miscellaneous Issues

[John White]

On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 09:01:27AM -0400, Steve Craft wrote:
> To throw my $.02 at this issue, if this is looking like a "low level" speed
> issue, why not tinker with the hardware?  Taking the two disks that hold
> /var and putting them on a RAID0 set should give you a serious speed boost
> without touching your (otherwise working) qmail config.
 
Definitely don't do that. :)

With disk striping, any disk failure = total loss of the queue.

If you're looking for queue speed, you want RAID 1+0 with a
NVRAM cache to accellerate the small block writes.

John