swamped mail relays - suggestions

[[UTF-8] David Höhn]

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Greg Matthews wrote:
> I'm running three mail relays served round-robin by DNS. Over the last
> month these have started to struggle to cope with the load.
>
ext2 seems like an excellent choice still. If you have lots of little
mail, maybe ReiserFS.
Personally most servers that struggle which I have seen were killed by
disk I/O needs.

Is that a fast SCSI Raid controller? (like an IBM 6M for example) are
those disks fastest scsi disks ?

- -d


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