Quoting Matt <lm7812 at gmail.com>: > I have a fairly high disk i/o intensive email server I am thinking of > upgrading. I was thinking of upgrading it to CentOS 5.x 64bit. I was > also thinking of running it as a guest under XEN. Would this allow me > to more easilly transfer it to faster hardware in the future? Or > would running as a guest seriously hurt disk i/o? I'm running a web and mail server in a guest xen domain with a raid 10 setup and have no disk i/o issues. I think you haven't supplied enough info for a complete answer, though. How much traffic, how much RAM, what disk(s) size and config will make a difference. Dave > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Krishnamurti