Author: Georg v. Zezschwitz Date: To: Kjetil Torgrim Homme CC: exim-users, Georg v. Zezschwitz Subject: 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.