On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:57:20 -0400 Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 09:53:28AM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

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But what I've found, for really large e-mail installations, there's always another bottleneck. The bigger/faster machine paradigm just doesn't scale after a while, so what I'm working on now is a new setup that I'm calling the "army of smurfs" design. I'm going to be buying lots of small/fast/cheap boxes, and not going to try to try to keep making that single monolithic machine do incrementally more.

If you're talking about generic large mail farms, Chuq, you *really* need to go find the Earthlink white paper on that and read it, if you haven't already. They have one on news, too. Don't recall the URL; Ask The Web<tm>.

http://www.earthlink.net/about/papers/mailarch.html http://www.earthlink.net/about/papers/scalenews.html

-- J C Lawrence claw@kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows