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Subject: Re: mail deliveries to NFS mount (sort of)
From: bert hubert (ahuds9a.nl)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2000 - 08:58:10 CDT

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 03:37:12PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:

> A Sun E250 should be 1000000x overkill for this kind of
> situation. We used to serve far more users on far less powerful
> hardware than this, although we didn't use NFS -- perhaps that was
> why. ;-)

An E250 is less powerful than it seems if you don't employ some kind of
fancy controler. I found that one E250 can only serve about 25.000 pop
mailboxes when using disksuite in a striped/mirror configuration.

If you want to get a Solaris box to perform, you will need a device like an
A1000. Or just go with an OS that has a decent fs, like Linux or *BSD with
softupdates.

Regards,

bert hubert 

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