From: Stan Hoeppner (stanhardwarefreak.com)
Date: Thu Dec 09 2010 - 15:55:19 CST

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Wietse Venema put forth on 12/9/2010 2:52 PM:
> Dave Brodin:
>> Thank you very much for the info. I'm really filling in because our
>> main system administrator's last day is tomorrow, unfortunately. I
>> guess it's 8.2-PRERELEASE (not sure how happy I am to find that out).
>> We did try 2.4.10 and it had the same problem.
>
> I would bet that the problem is not that Postfix is broken, but
> rather, that you have a problem with the way FreeBSD talks to your
> hardware.

Dave, does the old server have multiple high rpm SCSI or SAS disks in a RAID setup, but the new system has fewer, larger, lower rpm sata disks, possibly without raid striping at all? A substantial drop in storage subsystem IOPS throughput could be a possibility here as well.

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Stan

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