On Thu, 1 May 2003 17:44:27 -0400
Barry Shein <bzs(_at_)world(_dot_)std(_dot_)com> wrote:
Cheaper RAM enabling much more aggressive and accurate caching of
course clouds this picture somewhat.
But to imply that because CPUs have gone from 1MHZ to 3GHZ that we can
now process 3000x as much mail is unsupportable and misleading.
You have accurately stated why several large mail shops have invested so
heavily in solid state battery backed disks for their spools. It allows
them to satisfy the SMTP commit rules while keeping IO latency damned
low.
--
J C Lawrence
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