At 03:15 PM 2/12/2001 -0600, you wrote:
Thanks Greg and Matthew.
We're a small to medium sized ISP supporting about 4000 users and processing approx 85,000 to 100,000 pieces of mail per day. We generally use very little of our swap, normally around 100MB or so. However, the problem is that during our peak times or if someone is trying to check their POP mail and they've got a very large file (I'm trying to weed them all out and educate them on this issue, we aren't using quotas and that's a *whole* other story) the machine really stresses trying to handle it all. Does this sound like something that the RAM will fix, or am I totally on the wrong road?
If you do not have SCSI disks, it would be wiser to buy a faster hard drive then more RAM, imho.
Rob Wright poncacity.net robwright@poncacity.net
At 13:14 2/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Rob Wright wrote:
Greetings,
I'm running SuSE 6.4 on a mail server with sendmail 8.9.3 and we'd like to expand the memory from the current 256MB to a full 1GB.
Oh yeah, if you're only running a mail server are you sure you need the 1GB? Have you checked swap usage? Is it supporting a really large company or processing large lists? Sendmail/POP3 aren't like bloaty Exchange or Notes. The RAM may be more useful elsewhere.
Greg
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