New MS install is slow to an extreme

[DAve]

Martyn Routley wrote:
> DAve wrote:
>> DAve wrote:
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>> I moved the incoming dir to a tmpfs mount (mdmfs on freebsd) no change 
>> in processing time.
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>> I am getting really stumped now.
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>> DAve
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> What is your hardware?
> We had random processing times when running 6.2 on one of our servers. 
> (Single  P4 dual core)
> I upgraded in place to 7.0 (using FreeBsd Update 
> (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html) and now the emails 
> don't touch the sides.
> Getting Sophos to work was a bind though.
> 

Interesting, do you know the upgrade helped? I am always leery of 
"upgrade" as a solution unless I know why the upgrade is the solution.

Server 1
Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz Quad Core
2GB ram
Quatum Atlas SCSI drives, one for the system and one for the spool dir

Server 2
Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz Quad Core
2GB ram
Maxtor SATA drives, one for the system and one for the spool dir

DAve

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