Author: John P Connor Date: To: exim-users Subject: Fw: [Exim] Exim appears to be IO Bound
Tabor said:
> You might also consider (in addition to the other suggestions already
> made) to put your spool on it's own set of mirrored disks, like say a pair
> of 4g seagate cheetahs (the 10k RPM disks, although I'd think the 7200 RPM
> barracudas would be fine as well for the volume of mail you're currently
> doing).
>
Yes, I was thinking of using more discs. Thanks to everyone who has made
suggestions. I seem to have "tamed" the problem for now which, I think, was
caused by a large backlog of external mail. I've speeded up the way mail is
authenticated (we're using Portal's Infranet to store account details, which
means calling an external program to talk to it) and ran exim with the
queue_only option set & manually processed the queue, as suggested in one of
the FAQs.
