Greetings... armijo@cs.unm.edu writes:

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Please include any other suggestions.

ok,

assuming the toaster is the bottleneck, you may also want to turn off atime updates, make sure the toaster is homed on each network on which it has clients, would adding more nvram benefit help? are you running 100tx-fd, or better? for that matter, is network, cpu, or disk i/o the real bottleneck?

Guys, much appreciate all of your responses to my question regarding maildir and mbx.

The filer (520) has been smoking for a year now but us being a university depending on government funding it is hard to get new iron in here. I was looking for a quick and relatively pain-free fix; mbx seemed like a good candidate. The nvram/ram is maxed out at 8/256 and network is on 100/full. Disk shortage is another problem because I can't get the proper Seagate 9 GB SCSI disks to keep the OS happy. (some time ago I was asking those of you that run ST39173 what firmware rev they are using; no response)

I am being told now, that a new filer from Dell might be an option at MUCH cheaper price.

Q: anyone out there that has experience with Dell filers? are they just reselling the NetApp filers ?

Thanks, George

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