Dell and SSD drives

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> I am looking at our mail servers and trying to get some disk IO
> contentions down. I would like to know if people have used SSD's in a
> Linux environment. I am looking at an SSD over a ramdisk for
> persistence of storage in case of reboots. What I would like to do is
> put in 2 SSD's into a 2950 and have them deal with the malware and
> spam scanning directories as that seems to be the contention points.

First you should maximize your RAM and try tmpfs.
That would be faster.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)

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