ROFL, ok.. I feel small now ... ... ... ...
--JT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Austad, Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'James Stevens'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:56 PM
Subject: RE: Running Multiple Copies of Qmail on the same server...
> Here's what I did:
>
> I have a main server running qmail and ezmlm. I set up ezmlm to use qmqp
to
> send it's messages. I modified qmail-qmqmc.c to randomly pick a QMQP
server
> instead of just choosing the first one. Each list is broken up into 52
> sublists. Right now, I only have 3 QMQP servers. When a message goes
out,
> it randomly distributes 52 separate messages between 3 QMQP servers, which
> ends up being pretty even. All of the sending is offloaded to other
> machines, and split up, so the messages go out super fast. 1,000,000
> addresses in under 15 minutes. :) I saturate one of our DS3's everytime
it
> runs. My modifications can support up to 255 QMQP servers.
>
> The bounces are starting to load down the main box though, I'm going to
have
> to lower the ezmlm-warn timeout to about 4 days, it's still at 11.6.
>
> Jay
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 7:38 PM
> To: Goran Blazic; Qmail
> Subject: Re: Running Multiple Copies of Qmail on the same server...
>
>
> Well when a list of 200k+ is mailing and another list gets fired up behind
> it I would like the server which sits almost twiddling it's thumbs and has
> all kinds of resources left over to be able to send out to more than one
> list at a time without a queue delay.... Right now 'Majordomo' funnels all
> messages into qmail via qmail-send and anything that gets queued after
that
> has to wait for the current queue to get done. To get around this I plan
on
> setting up multiple qmails under the same server each having it's own
queue
> ofcourse and then each client would have his or her own smtp server for
> sending to there lists on. Meaning that with multiple qmails running one
> client could send to her or his list and a secound client could send to
her
> or his list and a third client could send to her or his list and I could
> send to my staff list and nowone would experience any delays and maybe
just
> maybe my server might get above a 5% load avaerage for the first time in
> it's life.
>
> Anyways if anyone has actually done this please point me in the right
> direction.... I'd really appreciate it. ;)
>
> --JT
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Goran Blazic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'James Stevens'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Qmail"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:22 PM
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
