You have to accept that not everyone is affluent enough to dedicate an
entire machine solely to email, working on this model and taking service
redundancy, data redundancy and back-ups into account, to do basic hosting
with ( email, www, DNS & SQL ) you would need 8 servers, 8 raid cards, 16
scsi drives buckets of ram and several tape drives not to mention the
licensing if microsoft is the OS of choice.
So many people will be running multiple services duplicated over fewer boxes
especially if in a co-located enviroment which may charge by the server or
by the "U" of rack space, and although imail may be austensively a ram based
product the applications it is co-existing with may not, and not paying
attention to things such as the swap file will mean the time between
complete rebuilds or image redeployment reduces significantly, increases
manpower costs and service downtime.
And if a server has to be taken down because SQL has fragmented the drives
to a point where it seriously affects performance and the machine has to be
taken offline then wouldn't affect Imail if due to financial restrictions
they were both on that server ?
I think it is slightly unfair to condescend in such a fashion towards
Daniel, for people on a budget I feel it is a valid and purposefull thread
that will under the aforementioned circumstances aid the reliability of an
Imail system.
Mike A.B.S.O
(lutely no letters after my name, wot a dunce)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] webservice crashes can't upgrade
> Daniel
>
> Can you explain this swap file business? A mail server shouldn�t be
> swapping at all or extremely little.
>
> What has ipswitch found in increasing the hardly used swap file to 3X
> memory size makes Imail work better?
>
> Len
>
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