Re: [exim] Exim on slow Solaris SPARC servers

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Author: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Date:  
To: Georg v. Zezschwitz
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim on slow Solaris SPARC servers
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 17:38 +0100, Georg v. Zezschwitz wrote:
> I am running an SMTP relay server with Exim 4.50 on
> Solaris 8. Currently, the "cluster" is built up by 2 V.120
> servers.


> - Test hardware is a SUN X1 server (Solaris 8 default installation)


that's an IDE system, whereas V120 is SCSI, so the comparison isn't
valid.

> The bottleneck is not IO, it is the CPU.


unfortunately, IDE eats CPU, particularily the IDE chipsets Sun have
used in older models.
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Kjetil T.