The only benchmark info I know of is in this paper
http://www.neverness.org/docs/lsm.pdf
However its 10 years old now, applies to Exim 3.x, and a good part of
the information is around the NetApp/NFS filestore used for the mail
system at Planet.
Nigel.
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