Due to both IMail and Declude logging in such a way that they can
severely fragment a drive, I recommend first logging to the spool and
then moving the logs daily, or even hourly if there is enough volume,
to another drive. Since IMail logs to the spool without an option to
do otherwise, you might as well dump the Declude logs in there as
well. Moving them will effectively defragment the drive that they were
originally on and write them to the new drive in defragmented format as
well. Naturally you would script this and run it with your scheduler.
Before the fragmentation was so bad that one day's worth of logs would
fully fragment a 5 GB partition, and if I didn't catch it within a few
days, it would be so fragmented that Windows wouldn't defrag the drive
due to a lack of clean space despite the fact that it was over 80%
free. Seems that the problem is somewhat exponential with volume.
Since I started doing this, my spool drive as well as the entire server
has been without need to be fragmented. This also enhances
performance, especially on systems that don't have a lot of I/O to
spare.
Matt
Darin Cox wrote:
It depends on your volume, but you
can probably spool more than the machine can handle with a 5GB
partition.
And logging might need a bit more,
depending on your volume, what level of logging you do, and your log
retention/archival policy. We do high logging (but not debug) for all
processes, zip the
previous month's logs, and retain
for 6 months (probably overkill).
We use about 6GB for the logging per
1000 email addresses (users&aliases), so I would probably allocate
8-10GB/1000, assuming monthly zipping of logs
Darin.
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15GB for
spooling would be overkill, as if you had that many messages sitting in
the spool, you have got a problem.
5GB would
probably be overkill, but I would use 5GB.
John
Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices
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Thanks
guys! This was exactly the type of advice I was looking for. One
quick follow on question, are their any recommendations or calculations
I should use for determining the amount of space to allocate for spool
and logging directories as compared to main/user directory size? Since
I have roughly 130 Gb to use for iMail. Would allocating 100Gb for
user and iMail program area and 15 Gb each for logging and spooling be
reasonable, not-enough or overkill?
Wolf
Adding to
this, I use the mounted volume feature (added in W2000 and to Unix on
day 1) so that the filesystem seems seamless to Imail/Declude/Sniffer,
etc.
For example,
I have the following volumes:
C:\
System
e:\ Imail
F:\ Imail
Spool --- Mounted to e:\imail\spool
g:\
Declude Junkmail/virus Log Files -- Mounted to e:\imail\DecludeLogs
h:\
SpamChk Logs -- Mounted to e:\imail\spamchk\spamchklogs
Config files
just use e:\imail\blah blah to reference everything.
That way if
I want to change something or just revert to a single filesystem I
don't need to change config files.
It's
probably not necessary but this helps cut down on NTFS corruption and
DR times by putting everything on its own filesystem.
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Separate, most
definitely. OS should always be separate from other services, and each
service should be in it's own partition, sometimes even it's own drive.
I would do 8GB for the OS
(you can get away with less, but it depends on how much other software
will be loaded), and have two or three IMail partitions.
One IMail partition for
the main install, and a separate partition (preferably separate drives,
but if you're setting up RAID you've already gone a different route)
each for spool and logging. As to size of each partition, it depends
on your expected volume, but generally smaller spool partitions are
better as long as they are adequate to the volume.
By putting spool,
logging, and main installation on separate drives, you get better
performance due to dedicated channels for each type of traffic, and
also make it easier to defragment each partition.
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Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 12:01 PM
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iMail, Declude and Killer Web Mail Installation Question
I’m getting ready to
setup a new mail server. I’ve purchased a Dell PowerEdge server with
RAID 1 and two 148Gb drives and will be using Windows 2003 Enterprise edition as the OS. My
question has to do with partitioning the drives. Does anyone have a
recommendation as to whether I should create a small (say 4 to 8 Gb)
partition just for the OS and then a larger separate partition for
iMail, declude and KWM? Or should I just create one large partition
for everything?
I’d like to install this
system to the highest standards I can right out the gate. Since this
list is one of the best sources for good solid professional advice, I’d
really appreciate any guidance or opinions anyone would be willing to
share.
Thanks!
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