Hrmm.... Been running qmail for about 5 months now and really haven't
noticed a bottle neck. I know with SendMail (shudder) there were bottle
necks everywhere... But since I installed qmail really haven't ecperienced
any...
--JT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Austad, Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'James Stevens'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michael Boyiazis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Qmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:50 PM
Subject: RE: Running Multiple Copies of Qmail on the same server...
> You're better off with RAID 0+1. I run RAID 5 on mine and when it runs
> through the queue, disk IO is the bottleneck.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 7:45 PM
> To: Michael Boyiazis; Qmail
> Subject: Re: Running Multiple Copies of Qmail on the same server...
>
>
> Thanks! .. ;)
>
> The machine I'm running qmail on has like a full c block assigned to it
and
> a RAID5 array so I don't think the disk i/o will be a problem ?? But if
> needed I also have a RAID1 Array setup on it with twin 20gigs so I could
> place the secound qmail over there but I think the RAID5 should be fast
> enough for it.... Thoughts?
>
> --JT
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Boyiazis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:38 PM
> Subject: RE: Running Multiple Copies of Qmail on the same server...
>
>
> > We have found inbound mail to be very disk i/o bound
> > w/o doing much to the cpu. so we added another disk
> > and have two instances running. it lets us handle twice
> > the load.
> >
> > you need the box to handle 2 IPs;
> >
> > for the second instance recompile w/ the value in:
> > /export/home/qmail-1.03/conf-qmail to hold the
> > home of the second queue, say /var/qmail2 instead
> > of the default /var/qmail
> >
> > the spot in your tcpserver line that says 0 smtp
> > should be changed to be:
> >
> > mail_instance_1.domain.com smtp
> >
> > and repeat the tcpserver startup for another instance.
> >
> > make sure to both qmail instances are started in your
> > init script.
> >
> > --
> > Michael Boyiazis
> > Mail Architect, NetZero, Inc.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Goran Blazic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:23 PM
> > > To: 'James Stevens'; Qmail
> > > Subject: RE: Running Multiple Copies of Qmail on the same server...
> > >
> > >
> > > I dont really see no good point on why you would want to run
> > > multiple copies
> > > of qmail...
> > > Or what you would understand by that.... ??!!??
> > >
> > > Goran
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 2:19 AM
> > > To: Qmail
> > > Subject: Running Multiple Copies of Qmail on the same server...
> > >
> > >
> > > Can someone point me to a web page that has some explanation
> > > of setting up
> > > concurrent running qmails on the same machine and what edits
> > > I need to make
> > > to avoid conflicks..
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance..
> > >
> > > --JT
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
