[Mailman-Users] large lists question

Marc MERLIN marc_news at vasoftware.com
Mon Jun 3 05:12:39 CEST 2002


On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:34:47PM -0400, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Lets not forget about the biggest bottle neck of all... the Hard Drive.  
> For maximum through-put, you need to use a SCSI drive or RAID array as the 
> Disk Subsystem for the server.  If this is mission critical the obvious 
> choice is a SCSI / RAID disk subsystem.

Actually if you have enough RAM, the whole config.pck should fit in the disk
cache, so  it's not a  huge deal (but  yes, I use SCSI  and RAID for  all my
servers)

Marc
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