Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-29 Thread Devijver, Fabien
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:40:13PM -0500, Duane Schaub wrote: We have tried a Redhat6.1 backend on the NFS with Redhat 6.1 NFS clients. Others may point out that an observed weakness of the stock linux kernel from RH 6.1 has been

Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-24 Thread Mike Scher
On 23 May 2001, Mark Delany wrote: I don't want to start an OS war, but if you want to use NFS on an Intel box, I strongly suggest one of the BSDs. I was in a situation where I had to use Linux NFS servers - that was until they failed miserabled. They were replaced with FreeBSD and the

Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-24 Thread John White
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:40:13PM -0500, Duane Schaub wrote: We have tried a Redhat6.1 backend on the NFS with Redhat 6.1 NFS clients. Others may point out that an observed weakness of the stock linux kernel from RH 6.1 has been shown to have weak NFS performance when compared to some of the

High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-23 Thread Duane Schaub
I want to set up multiple qmail machines to access an NFS backend. We have about 10,000 users (running maildir) and an average of 5 emails/user/dat and av. 10K in size. On average, there are 6 simultaneous pop sessions with approx. 200 new sessions/min. We have tried a Redhat6.1 backend on the

Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Weiner
I want to set up multiple qmail machines to access an NFS backend. We have about 10,000 users (running maildir) and an average of 5 emails/user/dat and av. 10K in size. On average, there are 6 simultaneous pop sessions with approx. 200 new sessions/min. I'm working on something similar.

Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-23 Thread Mark Delany
I don't want to start an OS war, but if you want to use NFS on an Intel box, I strongly suggest one of the BSDs. I was in a situation where I had to use Linux NFS servers - that was until they failed miserabled. They were replaced with FreeBSD and the problems went away. Regards. On Wed, May

Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-23 Thread Charles Cazabon
Duane Schaub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to set up multiple qmail machines to access an NFS backend. We have about 10,000 users (running maildir) and an average of 5 emails/user/dat and av. 10K in size. 50,000 messages a day, 10k each? Not a huge load. We handle about a tenth of that

RE: High Availability, High Volume and NFS

2001-05-23 Thread Jeremy Suo-Anttila
Unleash the daemon! ;) -Original Message- From: Mark Delany [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 2:12 PM To: Qmail List Subject: Re: High Availability, High Volume and NFS I don't want to start an OS war, but if you want to use NFS on an Intel box, I strongly