OT - Re: hunting the fatty

[mancyborg at gmail.com]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:50:29 -0600
Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com> wrote:

> LOL.
> 
> This is a horrible subject line.  I've been trying to resolve a DDOS
> issue, and ignoring a lot of email. 
> 
> Here I had been thinking this was a sex-spam, and I just got around to
> wondering why the spam system isn't working quite right and they kept
> coming in.  :P
> 
> Not sure if this was suggested, but use SSD's.  With a ton of mail
> combined with Maildir random reads/writes, SSD's are like night and day.
> 
> Rick

Very sorry about nasty subject ;)

Btw is it worth the offload on i/o by having some Dovecot index or cache on an SSD ?