Bryan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Currently I get around 50 K emails per hour on a PIII 650 with 512MB ram and
> dual IDE hard disks (one dedicated to qmail) running RedHat Linux 6.2.
>
> I have applied the patch to allow more that 250 remotes (I currently run 400
> remotes). I have applied the "Big Todo" patch and compiled with conf-split
> set to 251.
>
> Are there other high volume patches?
>
> At this point we are running 6 outbound qmail servers and they can pretty
> much saturate our 10Mbit pipe (minus about 30% for other traffic). Right
> now we are looking to expanding the pipe and I want to see if I can up the
> capacity without adding more boxes.
You might seriously want to consider upgrading your disk subsystem; a RAIDed
10k RPM SCSI setup can sustain much higher disk bandwidth than a single
IDE disk. If network bandwidth isn't the limiting factor, many people find
the most likely bottleneck to be disk bandwidth for the queue.
Charles
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Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
QCC Communications Corporation Saskatoon, SK
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