From: Andrew Morgan (no email)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 12:27:49 EDT
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Sergio Devojno Bruder wrote:
> > > I never saw any published benchmarks|comparitions of
> > > cyrus with MTAs doing local delivery by lmtp|smtp.
> >
> > That's because it is hugely dependent on your system. I believe 15 emails
> > per second is possible, but you need:
> > 1. Extremely well tunned storage (big caches, etc)
> > 2. XFS or another very fast journaled filesystem.
>
> I was thinking about the infamous ext3 data=journal. XFS is better
> than that (for MTAs)?
I've been using the following:
/dev/sdb1 /private ext3 defaults,data=ordered,noatime 0 2
for Cyrus with no trouble. noatime makes it very fast indeed because you
don't to update the journal for every file access.
Andy
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