Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas Hager
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:12, Etienne Goyer wrote: Very interesting ... we expect a similar load (~30K active users) on similar hardware, except the mupdate master will run on a separate machine. I suppose you run your MTAs on the frontend, as such that's where the bottleneck is ? yep, that's

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas Hager
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:32, Simon Matter wrote: That's exactly what I'm doing here. Almost every MTA and the cyrus servers have their own LDAP replica. I had some problems years ago when the central and only LDAP Master hung from time to time. Now, every service is configured to use it's

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-11 Thread Thomas Hager
Configuration for murder hardware. What is not clear to me is the basis for determining the number of frontend servers and backend servers. I would appreciate any help or pointers to additional documentation. well, the number of mailboxes should not be of any concern, the expected load

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-11 Thread Etienne Goyer
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:02:09AM +0100, Thomas Hager wrote: on another site i'm running a cyrus murder with 2 frontends and 2 backends handling about 30k users. we have ldap daemons on the backend used for user authentication/mail routing and mtas on the frontends handling smtp. this system

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote: but it reaches its limits in very busy hours. usually the cyrus internal authentication begins to fail. backends and mupdate slaves can no longer Looks like an overloaded LDAP backend to me... I've seen this enough on our systems that I use

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-11 Thread Etienne Goyer
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:26:58PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote: but it reaches its limits in very busy hours. usually the cyrus internal authentication begins to fail. backends and mupdate slaves can no longer Looks like an

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-11 Thread Thomas Hager
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:26, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Looks like an overloaded LDAP backend to me... I've seen this enough on our systems that I use sasldb+ldap, with all internal users (cyrus admins, etc) in sasldb, and the real users in ldap that's exactly our current setup.

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-11 Thread Thomas Hager
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:23, Etienne Goyer wrote: Very interesting ... I am building a Murder whee we expect a similar load. Could you expand a bit on the hardware used ? we use compaq dl360g3 on all machines. they are equipped with 2x Intel Xeon 2.8GHz and 2GB RAM. 4 70GB hdds are configured

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-11 Thread Thomas Hager
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:54, Etienne Goyer wrote: Exactly what we planned on doing too. Did it made a big difference to you to have internal (i guess admin, proxy and mupdate) users in sasldb? as i said previously, we have no problems at all with external users authenticated via saslauthd. our

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-11 Thread Simon Matter
We planned on running multiple MTA, one by frontend (2), to get some redundancy. I'll keep the idea in mind, in case the frontend choke up. we plan to run 4 mtas, 2 handling incoming traffic, 2 for outgoing traffic, with ldap slaves on each mta. the mtas will use these ldap slaves for mail

Re: hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-11 Thread Simon Matter
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:54, Etienne Goyer wrote: Exactly what we planned on doing too. Did it made a big difference to you to have internal (i guess admin, proxy and mupdate) users in sasldb? as i said previously, we have no problems at all with external users authenticated via saslauthd.

hardware for cyrus murder

2003-11-10 Thread Giridhar Raichur
We are in the process of converting UW Imap to Cyrus Imap. We have about 10K users using about 100K mailboxes. We anticipate the number of users to increase to 15K. I looked at http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ocnfig.html that describes Cyrus Configuration for murder hardware. What is not clear to me