On Thursday 26 September 2002 23:37 pm, Su Li wrote: > Oh man! you really did a lot to improve the the performance. > > I will for sure need to look into lmtpd temp file. So far I don't think > Sendmail is a bottle neck, may be later it will be. > > RAID 5 is the slowest one, if I didn't remember wrong. I am using RAID 0, > with no protection at all. I think your idea of mount a temp file system is > good. But I not sure how to do that on Linux. > > Thank you so much for your help. > > If I can come up with some thing new, I 'll share with every body in the > mailing list too. > > Su >
RAID 0 will be faster than RAID 5. No parity, equal sriping across the drives. Best perfomance with protection would be RAID 0+1. As for tmpfs on Linux, good tutorial/article: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3.html Jeremy
