In what way would you break this into two separate machines? Would you be
using NFS or Coda to do some network mounting scheme, or would you just
split the users down the middle assigning half to one box and half to the
other?
At 03:13 PM 1/7/99 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Sean Rietze wrote:
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>> OK, little advice. Getting ready to order a Dell Poweredge 2300 machine
>> to run qmail and about 35,000 pop accounts on.
>>
>> Like some advice on the setup of the disks:
>>
>> Base machine will be dual 400 with 512MB RAM running RH 5.2
>
>You'd be better off with two seperate boxes rather than a single dual
>processor box.
>
>You are going to be I/O bound before you ever run out of processor.
>
>Make one a POP server, and one the mail server.
>
>> My questions are about the mail spool and queue areas.
>> My thoughts have been dual-controller DPT card (32MB cache onboard)
>
>I use DPT PM3334UW's for redundancy(RAID 0+1) but not for speed. They
>aren't particularly fast cards in my experience.
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