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From: "STEVEN MOORE (IFL)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 11:43 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Can you load balance imail boxes?
> Hi,
>
> We haven't tried this exactly though we have tried using IMail to a share
> (located on the same computer) and it is really slow. Basically most of
the
> speed to you get from your filesystem is through intelligent caching by
NTFS
> so when you use the share you basically lose that caching and everything
is
> about 20% of the speed. Also the CPU load is significant when using shares
> as all data transfer goes through the networking subsystem.
>
> I'd be really interested in what happens with this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
> Steven Moore
> Internet Development Engineer
> Research Machines
> +44 1235 823522
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wylie Dunham
> Sent: 27 June 2000 22:12
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Can you load balance imail boxes?
>
>
> I would Like to configure 2 imail boxes using the same SQL user database
via
> ODBC. I have a load balancing switch which will direct traffic to the
boxes
> based on availability. I will have the users mail boxes located on a
> mounted file system accessible to both systems. Will I run into A
read/write
> issue? Is this possible? I have a load balancing switch which will
direct
> traffic to the boxes based on availability.
>
> I have looked into peering but it doesn't offer the same solution as load
> balancing.
>
> Any help or insight would Be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Wylie Dunham
>
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