Brett Randall wrote:
>
> Well...I have a little 2c to chuck in as well
>
> I have just finished designing a system (and implementing it) for our
> corporation that allows distributed e-mail across a city, with hundreds,
> possibly thousands, of different locations either dialing up or being
> pe
ing you buy from Sun... ;-)
cheers,
Andrew.
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From: Toens Bueker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 28 June 2000 15:31
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Building very large Qmail instalations...
Greg Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm one of the admins of a
Mike Denka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you, or anyone else who would care to join this discussion, please be
> more specific re: "Suns filesystems and qmails file operations"?
I've done a lot tweaking squid proxies (Sun U2) and
therefore had a lot to do with filesystems. You can see
the
Well...I have a little 2c to chuck in as well
I have just finished designing a system (and implementing it) for our
corporation that allows distributed e-mail across a city, with hundreds,
possibly thousands, of different locations either dialing up or being
permanently connected to our main rela
Title: RE: Building very large Qmail instalations...
I am also tackling the same problem. My idea is to have a line of frontend servers load-balanced at network level and other line of servers solely taking care of storage. The mail servers would access the storage via NFS on a private
Greg Moeller writes:
> Now, we called Sun, asking about a high capacity disk solution, one that might
> help with the IO problems. (cache on the disk array to take care of all the
> fsyncs Qmail does)
> They told us that around 50k-60k mailboxes is about the limit of Qmail.
They have no cl
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...
> Impor
Greg Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm one of the admins of a largish Qmail installation (~60,000 mailboxes)
> and the hardware we're running it on it near the limit.
> (Sun Ultra 450, dual processor, A1000 storage array)
> The system is very IO bound, sometimes with a load average of 20-2
I'm one of the admins of a largish Qmail installation (~60,000 mailboxes)
and the hardware we're running it on it near the limit.
(Sun Ultra 450, dual processor, A1000 storage array)
The system is very IO bound, sometimes with a load average of 20-25.
(although usually between 3-8)
Now, we called
