>We are going to implement new email servers. For performance and fault
>tolerance what would be the best way to configure you hard disks?
I�d go with RAID 0 striping + RAID 1 mirroring rather than RAID5, for mail i/o.
> I also remember something that Len had wrote in the list a long time
> ago about how to install IMAIL for performance (put spool directory on
> separate drive and users on the other)??
yep, you got it, and separate disks on separate controllers for spool and
for mailbox storage.
And plenty of memory to avoid swapping. swap file on a dedicatd
partition. but better to minimize swapping with huge memory.
And keep you spool directory "clean" of old files since file searching in
the spool directory when the directory had 100�s or 1000�s of files really
slows down searching.
Len
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