[geeks] Older Intel Processors

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Mike Meredith wrote:
> It may not be particularly noticeable on a mail server however. Mail
> server performance is usually dominated by disk performance rather than
> CPU or memory bandwidth. Of course a P4 era machine may have faster
> disks than a P3 era one.

Nope.  Going to be the same disks (and possibly controller) between the 
two.  Ultra160 10000RPM IBM Ultrastars.  I'm not going to be upgrading 
my disks.  They're more than fast enough.

Anyway, a bunch of load from the virus scanner and spamassassin.

Peace...  Sridhar