scaling of DNS & mail servers

[Nick Simicich]

At 11:18 PM 3/30/2001 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
>At 1:44 PM -0500 3/30/01, Nick Simicich wrote:
>
>>  There is a long discussion of mail servers and scalability going on on the
>>  postfix users mailing list.  Effect of logging options, filesystem
changes,
>>  comparisons to qmail, etc.  Might be interesting to read the archives.
>>  http://www.postfix.org, I think.
>
>	These sorts of discussions have occurred in the past on the 
>postfix-users mailing list (many of which I participated in), and are 
>likely to have continued in my absence.  However, since it seems that 
>I'm always repeating the same old things time after time, I have to 
>wonder if anything new has been said (or heard) on this subject.
>

The only recent new stuff (I think, anyway) is performance comparisons of
reiserfs (Linux) vs. ext2.  

Still, as new users come online, they have the same ropes to learn.
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