Re: [exim] Exim on slow Solaris SPARC servers

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:02:44PM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 17:38 +0100, Georg v. Zezschwitz wrote:
> > The bottleneck is not IO, it is the CPU.
>
> unfortunately, IDE eats CPU, particularily the IDE chipsets Sun have
> used in older models.

Good to know - however, ~0% idle is also what I see on the
V.120 / V.220 / V.440 (I have tested on all servers) when
pushing the server to the limit.

*Very* roughly, a dual CPU V.220 does 3-4 times that many
messages, a quad CPU V.440 7-8 times as many messages.

Regards,


Georg