Thanks for your idea. If I use master-slave, how would be the scalibility ? 
They run a hosting service and will have more and more email subscribers[maybe 
1 million at the end of second year] .Also I don't want to have service 
interruption for a part of users if a server fails. I will have quad 64 bit 
servers in backend. I assume that 50 % of users are active users and 12% 
concurrency for them. Does it makes sense for a hosting service provider? If 
yes, how can I estimate the hardware?

Thanks in advanced
Fatemeh Taj 


----- Original Message ----
From: Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: DBMail mailinglist <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2006 7:35:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Dbmail] DBmail in large scale


Fatemeh Taj wrote:
> Dear All

> I would like to know if dbmail could be used for large scale email
> environment. I know it is scalable as it uses mysql cluster. I am
> going to install it on redhat linux AS4. As I know mysql cluster
> loads the database engine in memory, now with 100,000 users which
> will have a maximum size of mailbox store , how mysql cluster can
> handle the load? What do you suggest for such scale? 

Why are you using nbd-cluster instead of a simple master-slave setup?

Use a master-slave setup on fast iron hardware. With 100.000 users the
main metric is the query load generated by the active users, and the
total size of the email store.


> My second
> question is that if it is possible to use Oracle as the backend
> database. 

Someone did a oracle driver for dbmail-1, but that tree hasn't been
updated since 2.0.0 afaik.

Writing a new driver (or updating the existing one) is not that much
work. I'd be happy to do so ($$$), as would Aaron I guess.


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