The disk in the machine with 64 MBRAM is 40% faster than the
one on the machine with more memory .....
So what to do ??????
On 8 Sep 00, at 9:25, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> > I have aboput 30 users, that however keep huge mailboxes (I have
> > seen more than 20 MB on inbox, and more than 100 in archives). I
> > wish to let them use IMAP . I have two alternatives: (OS : Linux ,
> > MTA: Exim 3.12 or 3.16 )
> > 1) using a machine with a single PII 333 and 128 MB RAM
> > 2) using a machine with a duel PII266 and 64 MB RAM
> > (The only services will be exim, imap, pop, and apache-ssl only for
> > a limited service) a) What is the better ???? how much ???
>
> With that sort of usage I would have thought that CPU was unnecessary
> (I have ~300 users on a 40Mhz (forty) sparc). With big files like that
> the extra memory might be useful, but I'd also consider the speed of
> the disk. If the files were small this benchmark would be meaningless,
> but
> hdparm -dD <device>
> results might mean something in this case.
>
> Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
> A.C.Aitchison@??? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
>
>
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Leonardo Boselli
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Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
Universita` di Firenze
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