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