ON Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:48:48PM -0600, Joel Rosenberg wrote: > > http://www.mosix.org) might be a better, if a bit bleeding-edge choice, > particularly if the process is going to be processor-bound, rather than I/O > bound, as that scales up in an obvious sort of way -- just add on more nodes > if things start to slow down. You're probably going to want SCSI and some > sort of RAID -- some of the performance data I've seen for RAID-5 suggests > that you really don't take much of a performance hit vs. RAID-1 as one would > intuitively think. It'll be disk I/O bound. If reliability isn't a requirement, he can do striping (RAID-0) or multiple queues over multiple disks. For RAID I would look at mirrored stripe sets (RAID 1+0) using software RAID. > My entirely unexpert guess is that pretty much any high-performance *nix box > is going to have little or no trouble keeping up with the kind of load you're > talking about, particularly if you're using postfix, which has the reputation > of giving better performance than sendmail. Anything, in my experience, is better than sendmail. qmail and postfix are two. -- Michael