On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:03:13PM -0800, Corey Chandler wrote: > Kenneth Marshall wrote: >> >> Your system is not a high-performance server I/O-wise. Your two disks can >> only >> handle 200-300 fsync's to disk per second and postfix will always sync >> your >> mail to disk before passing it on for local processing. You will need a >> battery backed caching RAID controller or fast SSD drive for the >> /var/spool/postfix directories to allow you to go faster. You could maybe >> move the spool directory to a RAM or tmpfs file system as well. You lose >> the safety net for messages if you have a power or other hardware problem. >> > For this kind of issue I generally split the laod across multiple boxes. > It's a lot easier to scale out than it is to keep throwing hardware at the > problem. > > -- Corey / KB1JWQ > I just thought of another distasteful option, use a pre-queue content filter to submit the E-mail and never pass it on to the postfix queue. :)
Ken
