[horde] Bottleneck ? CPU or HDisk IO or RAM

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Thu Feb 5 00:53:12 UTC 2009


Eric Jon Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Linux Advocate <linuxhousedn at yahoo.com>:
> 
>> A. supposing its two boxes of Dual Core Dual Xeons, 8GB RAM and 7.2k 
>> rpm 750 GB SATA
>> disks ( 6  or more ) in a RAID10, i.e one for horde, one for 
>> imap/pop/webmail ,will the 7.2k rpm sata drives cut it ? since imap is 
>> hard disk i/o intensive ( as mentioned in one of the posts here ) ?
> 
> I hope so, because I'm about to deploy the same type setup soon. :)  I
> won't be able to tell you until I deploy though, which might be too late.
> 
> Mine will be quad core Xeons, 8GB RAM, and SATA in RAID-10 on perc 6/i. :)
> The dual vs quad shouldn't be a big deal...  The SATA is the question (but
> who can afford SAS at 3 times the price?)
> 

What IMAP server are you using again?


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