Felix von Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 13 December 2000 at 20:31:48 +0100
> Thus spake Greg Cope ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Has anyone any empirical evidence for the speed increases I may expect
> > (as opposed to a fast EIDI (ATA 66, 8.5ms seek) or SCSI system (eg 10k,
> > 5.3 ms seek 25mb/s) ?
>
> Why would you expect a speed increase at all?
> And even if there were one, would anyone notice? Who looks at his
> email every millisecond and would even notice the improvement?
>
> I would suspect that your mail service, like everyone else's, is not
> limited by disk throughput, but by network throughput. Or are you
> delivering all those emails locally?
Um, most reporting measured results from optimizing high-traffic
qmail-based mail servers have found that disk activity on the queue
disk is the first limit they hit.
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