On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:19:24PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Consider server-class SLC SSD if needed
No need. Perfectly ordinary drives with a battery RAID controller will
do just fine. If the messages are 10kB or less, 100/sec gives 1MB/s which
is also not a problem for typical server network uplinks. The *only*
bottle-neck is remote sites.
> (and beware that flash memory
> wears out over write operations), and be sure to keep a watch on the
> NIC's send queues - don't let them run too long even under load if you
> want to keep DNS latency down (which you should). Check man tc, or the
> Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO.
All of this is overkill, but a local DNS resolver is a requirement.
--
Viktor.
