Could you, or anyone else who would care to join this discussion, please be
more specific re: "Suns filesystems and qmails file operations"? We are
load balancing a pair of Sun E250's sharing one disk array via NFS. All
Maildirs are on the NFS share. So far (roughly 10,000 mailboxes) I don't
notice any real problems. But I would be very interested in more detail
regarding these two issues (Sun filesystems and qmail file operations) in
case I do begin to notice I/O issues on the NFS server. Can you give a
detailed explanation or perhaps point me to some appropriate docs for more
detail?
Thanks,
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toens
> Bueker
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 7:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Building very large Qmail instalations...
> Importance: High
>
>
>
> The problem - in this case - is Suns filesystem and qmails
> file operations. You didn't mention the number of disks in
> your A1000 - but maybe you should add some and spread the
> load between them.
>
> My suggestion, though, would be to dump the E450 and grab
> a reasonable sized Intel box (maybe dual PII 500) with FreeBSD
> on it. With FreeBSD, ffs and softupdates your i/o
> headaches should be gone.
>
> By
> Töns
> --
> Linux. The dot in /.
>
