On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 10:12:03PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 03:57:03PM -0700, Sean Rietze wrote:
OK, little advice. Getting ready to order a Dell Poweredge 2300 machine
to run qmail and about 35,000 pop accounts on.
Is this Hardware RAID? Our sysadm could never
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
My questions are about the mail spool and queue areas.
My thoughts
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Sean Rietze wrote:
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
Sean Rietze wrote:
My thoughts have been dual-controller DPT card (32MB cache onboard)
with 4 9GB drives on one channel for the mailboxes and operating system
and on the
other channel a really fast 2 to 4.5GB SCSI drive for the queue. Anyone
see
any problems with this?
Well, how are you
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
Let me explain a little more. We are planning in the next month on buying an
Alteon switch
for layer 4 load balancing and a Netapp filer for maildir storage. My plan is for
3 dell 2300 servers used as front-end machines
running both pop/smtp. They will all NFS to the NetApp for the common
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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?
Well, since NFS +
Sam wrote:
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Sean Rietze wrote:
So, when I order these machines my question remains the same. Do we run the queue
on one fast 10,000 RPM
SCSI drive or do we go with mulitple heads by using a raid controller card running
3 disks on Raid 0? Does it
matter? I figure
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 03:57:03PM -0700, Sean Rietze wrote:
OK, little advice. Getting ready to order a Dell Poweredge 2300 machine
to run qmail and about 35,000 pop accounts on.
Is this Hardware RAID? Our sysadm could never make RH work on our Dell
server with RAID. Dell was less than
