[nycbug-talk] NFS in FreeBSD

[Francisco Reyes]

pete wright writes:

>> will be RAID 10.


> yea that should help, although I imagine with POP/IMAP connections
> disk I/O will not begin to be a bottleneck until you get many
> connections.  But heck, why not plan for scalability when you can ;)

On average our mail servers have 100+ Imap/POp3 (combined) connections.. on 
a day like today where everyone came back to work we had 200+.. with some 
scary peaks at 300+

All of that connecting to an NFS box (..total about 600 to 1000 users) does 
create significant traffic. :-)