John,
First off I would like to say thanks to you and thanks to the
others on this list and the Imail list that put effort and time in to
helping people. If you don't mind me asking I am assuming that you do
consulting for companies that run Imail at high volumes. Do you have
any example setups of a typical Gateway (Imail/Declude) that sees high
volume?
Kris
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With the information you have given, I would go with the one of the 2
following:
Note, it would be much better to use hardware RAID, but since you only
have
max 3 drives, I would use software. Even though you said redundancy is
not
an issue, you do get a slight performance boost using RAID 1 over no
RAID.
Configuration 1 using software RAID:
Disk 0 Partition 1 RAID1 with Disk 1 Partition 1 14 GB OS, Imail and
Declude
Disk 0 Partition 2 No RAID 3 GB Page file 1
Disk 0 Partition 3 RAID1 with Disk 2 Partition 1 17 GB Imail Spool
Disk 1 Partition 1 RAID1 with Disk 0 Partition 1 14 GB OS, Imail and
Declude
Disk 1 Partition 2 No RAID 3 GB Page file 2
Disk 1 Partition 3 Raid1 with Disk 2 Partition 2 17 GB Log Files
Disk 2 Partition 1 RAID1 with Disk 0 Partition 3 17 GB Imail Spool
Disk 2 Partition 2 RAID1 with Disk 1 Partition 2 17 GB Log files
Configuration 2 using hardware RAID:
Disk 0 and Disk 1 RAID1 by hardware.
Partition 1 14 GB OS, Imail and Declude
Partition 2 5 GB Page file
Partition 3 17 GB Log files
Disk 2 Imail spool
John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris McElroy
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:25 PM
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> Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Imail - DecludeJunkmail/Virus Gateway
>
> Well after spending time reading the archives (IMail/Declude) it seems
> that
> I am going about the gateway hardware setup wrong. I have to much
> money/time invested in Declude/Windows/Imail/Dell to ditch what I have
and
> go to something like IMGate. I know that people on this list run
> Declude/Imail as gateway servers that process much more mail than I
do. I
> "believe" that my Dell PE 1750 will process the load that I have and
then
> some IF setup correctly. The ingredient that I "think" that I am
missing
> is
> adequate Disk setup. I concentrated more on processor speed than what
> mattered, the disk setup.
>
> Currently I have this setup:
>
> 1 36Gb 15K SCSI, with 4 Logical Drives
> C: OS Windows 2000 Server, Swap File by default
> D: Programs Imail, Diskeeper, Fprot, Declude
> E: Imail SPool
> F: Declude Log Files
>
> My Dell will only hold 3 SCSI Drives and I can purchase the PERC4DI
128MB
> Raid Card add on. The help that I need is how should I set the disk
up
> with
> 3 Drives as a Gateway (incoming only, no mailboxes, no POP, no
WebMail)
> server? Redundancy doesn't matter I just need speed and mail to flow
> without backing up. I feel that this is my issue after playing with
> settings and reading archives. Would someone please chime in and give
me
> a
> direction which to travel with the proper "Tweaks" or here is my setup
and
> we process 75 to 100K messages per day. This way I will have some
type of
> mental diagram.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Kris
>
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