FreeBSD filesystem performance in Enterprise
Gary
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Mon Mar 1 14:34:06 PST 2004
Hi Forrest,
--On Monday, March 01, 2004 05:13:09 PM -0500 Forrest Aldrich
<forrie at forrie.com> wrote:
> Not trying to start a holy war - just looking into hard facts to
> support some systems I'm designing. FFS will either work, or it won't.
> Black or white.
>
> The type of I/O I'm talking about will be in the 100's of thousands of
> email messages (probably more) per day... obviously the underlying OS,
> filesystem tuning, hardware are also an issue. I'm simply trying to gain
> some insight into other's experience with FFS, etc.
Yahoo uses FreeBSD and qmail, and they deliver in the millions daily.. 100s
of 1000s per day is nothing for a good MTA and OS like FreeBSD.
--
Gary
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