On the "real" scsi hard RAID, I agree but... For those of us currently using Managed hosting, IDE drives might be the only option up front. While hardware RAID and SCSI are with out a doubt *much* better... the following makes sense to me:
- IDE soft RAID server handles 3000 users NP - it slows at 5000 users - why not partition to a second server to keep load down? - if it was fine with 3000 users it stands to reason that this would be fine partitioned. - Aren't 2 cheap serv's w/ HA better than one better server as a single point of failure? Again I'm new at this... as the user base and budget grows I'm all about zippy'r servers. However up front we could grab a couple 80GB sRAID 1.5GB RAM machines for only $300 a month. While a single 73SCSI RAID w/ less ram is around $500/m. With 2 cheaper machines I can have HA/Failover. So, I'm sure there's holes in it... I just want to get this out there. I'm guessing there are alot of people in a similiar situation, using *cheap* managed hosting due to budget constraints. -Kevin > Just posting this for a heads up. Not a question, just > info. > > We just switched from "Cyrus deliver" to "LMTP" transport. > > from: mail_transport=cyrus > to: mail_transport=lmtp > > Once we reached about 600 user we were having problems > with: > - corrupt mailboxes (needed to be reconstructed) > - cyrus deliver program freezing (no new messages) > > We switched to use LMTP for the Postfix transport. All of > our problems went away and the system performance has > improved noticeably. > > Unfortunately, I never located the specific issues that > were causing our problems. This did fix it though. > > I thought this might be helpful for others searching the > archives. "Just use lmtp" > > > -Kevin > > > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html