Matthew Sayler wrote: > On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 04:08:33PM +0200, Paul J Stevens wrote: > >>Distributed storage means dbmail would support more than one database >>backend. Consider a scenario where datastorage can be spread over more >>than one database server. Combined with capability to move users from >>one storage server to another, this would provide virtually unlimited >>scalability for dbmail. Think tens of thousands of active users, >>multi-terabytes (petabytes?) of storage, thousands of concurrent imap >>connections... > > > I could see something like memcached being useful here -- at least for > things like physmessage
Memcached will be used as well, but that doesn't solve the scalability issue, only the responsiveness. So will it may well allow more efficient usage per single storage backend, I don't see it help in breaking the 60TB barrier. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl
