On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 02:43:03PM -0800, Joel Laing wrote:
> I think the biggest improvement you can make is to put the temp-drop-dir
> on a separate drive. This will help lessen the I/O bottleneck. Also, use
> fast drives. If possible, stripe multiple drives for performance on both
> the spool file system, and the tmp-drop-dir file system. Mind you, I've
> not really played with the 4.x possibilities, but the above greatly
> improved performance for my 3.x setup.
Yes, this is all good advice in terms of hardware and file system
layout. A further note is to use RAID hardware, if you can afford to,
with the drives in a RAID 1+0 configuration for maximum performance.
It all depends what your budget allows.
-- Clifton
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"What do we need to make our world come alive?
What does it take to make us sing?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive..." - Sisters of Mercy
