also sprach irwanhadi:
> We are planning to have a new server, and it can be a Dual Pentium III
> server, with 512 RAM, and RAID 5 controller with 2 X 18 giga drives to
RAID5 is impossible with <3 disks, unless you're wanting to use multiple
partitions on one disk in the array, which I *KNOW* you're not. :)
> serve about 12,000 email account @ 2 M for our students, and web space
> about @1 M,
> My question is, can linux handle this so large system, especially from the
> inode problem.
I don't know about the inode problem, but you might reconsider trying to do
everything on one server. You're just opening yourself up to more widespread
downtime if something goes wrong. One major service per machine, and all
that...
> Beside that, as we want to give web space too for the students, can mysql
> handle this heavy load, because we want to make the password for web and
> mail the same, so my plan is using vpopmail + mysql, and proftpd + mysql,
> so they will share the same database password, and when users change their
> email password, they change their FTP password at the same time.
If you're only doing password stuff on the MySQL end, I don't see how this
would be anything of a stress. For example, we currently log >4M hits over
ten web servers to a MySQL database without little perceptible slowdown to
the MySQL database (machine load usually around 0.00-0.20). We've got
another MySQL db (running on another machine) that has up to 300
simultaneous connections, some of which are doing some fairly heavy joins
and whatnot.
MySQL is probably not going to be the problem. I'd say distributing your
services may be.
/pg
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