Ok, those are standard. I've read that sometimes changing arch flags,
say between pentium3 and athlon, can cause unpredictable problems.
Check out the Gentoo Overlays project, and the 'layman' tool. There are
manual pages and instruction pages on the Gentoo.org site for getting it
all up and running. Good luck!
Aaron
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:15 +0800, Sunny Koh wrote:
> Thanks Aaron for your reply
>
> Well, my CFLAGS are
>
> CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer"
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
>
> And these are replicated for all my machines. Only change maybe was going
> from a generic flag for pentiums to this standard...
>
> How does one use the sunrise builds?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "DBMail mailinglist" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 2:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dbmail] Best Gentoo Installation Method and Questions about
> 2.2
>
>
> > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 11:23 +0800, Sunny Koh wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> My current DBMail system is getting very unstable and needs a full
> >> reset every now and then with the system complianting about not having
> >> enough database connections or imap connections that fail after a few
> >> seconds. (Currently usinbg 2.0.10 on Gentoo Linux with postfix/mysql)
> >> Also, my nightly cleanup database script is currently running for 55
> >> minutes at midnight and no one is able to check their mail during that
> >> time of day. For some reference, I have about 60 real users and my
> >> Database size is about 2 to 4GB runing on a Pentium-III 1Ghz with 1GB
> >> RAM.
> >
> > The hardware you have should be plenty to handle those database sizes
> > under reasonable usage levels, so something is definitely gone wrong
> > with your installation. Have you ever used complex CFLAGS at any time?
> >
> > Misusing the ability to provide absurd CFLAGS is the Gentoo user's kiss
> > of death, and it is the first thing I would look at before looking at
> > any specific problems.
> >
> >> The base OS is patched for a few years, I am going to do a fuull
> >> reimage and reinstallation. And hopefully most of these problems would
> >> be gone.
> >>
> >> My first question would be what would be the best method to do the
> >> install, download the .tar.gz, follow the normal method or use
> >> portage? (I am aware that dbmail is not in the main portage database,
> >> but if I am going to use the ebuilt, what are the commands/step I
> >> should be taking?) And which init script files should I be using. (I
> >> was using the posted Gentoo ones from the mailing list a few years
> >> ago)
> >
> > Use the Sunrise ebuilds, they work well. If you want to use libSieve, it
> > is in the main Portage tree.
> >
> >> Second question is is 2.2 stable enough? I don't want a confidence
> >> lost with my users when I perform the upgrade. I am very interested in
> >> the LDAP as I want to implement a groupware package during this round
> >> of upgrades.
> >
> > 2.2 is very stable, much more than 2.0. You'll like it!
> >
> >> My Third question is, it is possible to use a second machine to do
> >> anti-spam filtering? I am considering doing this as it gives some
> >> redundancy to my mail setup as I can set the primary reciever to this
> >> machine and it forwards to the real mail server. (As well as keeping
> >> the email server nice and simple) Any community views on this?
> >
> > Yes, and this works fine generally by using SMTP to move mail from the
> > anti-spam host over to the main mail server. There are several howto
> > guides on the DBMail wiki, and many, many more guides on anti-spam mail
> > relays out there, just search a little and you'll find 'em.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
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