On Wednesday 09 January 2002 04:16 pm, you wrote: > 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. > Hmm.. assuming the sever "never crashes" (heh) wouldnt performance be much better using a ramdisk for the spools? I know this breaks the SMTP protocol (which actuly says messages must be written to disk).. but would this work? Jay