Author: Brian austin Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Speeding Up Exim
Matt wrote: >>> I wander if the SATA feature of NCQ would speed the disk I/O up but
>>> there is likely no easy way to upgrade CentOS 4.x to do that.
>>>
>> AFAICT CentOS 4.5 kernel was originally based on 2.6.9. A long time
>> ...
>> Anyway. I'd give it a shot if you have some minutes of downtime.
>> Well, if you update... go to the latest stable tree.
>>
>
> This is what I show.
>
> Linux version 2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp (mockbuild@???) (gcc
>
> ...
> SCSI device sdb: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB)
> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
> sdb: sdb1
>
> Matt
>
> I know this is probably outside your gameplan but I use debian etch with
a backported 2.6.23 kernel. All the latest ich9 hardware available.
You can google for etch installer backport.