Laugh, ok wheres that Fiber Trunk and gigabit card I ordered?
--JT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ihnen, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'James Stevens'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Michael Boyiazis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Qmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:48 PM
Subject: RE: Running Multiple Copies of Qmail on the same server...
> Even on a raid 5 array, I'm sure that the processor will be waiting for
the
> disk I/O. There is alot of it, after all.
>
> Is it a problem? Naw...
>
> Will it process messages faster with separate disks, and even separate
disk
> controllers?
>
> I'm bettin it will.
>
> But when it comes down to it, are you more limited by bandwidth or disk
i/o?
> Fix one bottleneck, you'll make another.
>
> David
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:45 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
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
