Mariano Wahlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Hy, i'm Administrator of an University, and my mail (pop/imap) server > has 5-6 average LA, the machine is an Dual Pentium Xeon of 2.4Ghz, with > 1Gb of RAM, and one UW-SCSI 320 of 36Gb. My domain has 4000 email > accounts, and 5 list of 3000 local users (that send one or two email by > day). The problem is that users gets TIMEOUT everytime that try to > download emails, etc etc..
E-Mail (and especially with MTAs like postfix and qmail) is IO-bound. You need more disks to spread the load on more spindles. by Töns -- There is no safe distance.
