Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Dan Phoenix wrote: Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then does not try any others"default"yes there is still backlog with #'s I gave you. Right now 8 min to get an email from

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Matt Dillon wrote: :Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not :like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then :does not try any others"default"yes there is still backlog with :#'s I gave you. Right now 8 min to get an email from

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-08 Thread Dan Phoenix
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Charles Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jos Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Dan Phoenix wrote: Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not like to much about postfix

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-08 Thread Geoff Buckingham
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:41:59AM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: Yes I did and it made some real differences. I enabled it on /usr as well as /var and mounted /var with the noatime option. Doing not bad for the amount of email it is pushingthing is this I/O problem never use to be an

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-08 Thread Julian Elischer
Dan Phoenix wrote: Yes I did and it made some real differences. I enabled it on /usr as well as /var and mounted /var with the noatime option. Doing not bad for the amount of email it is pushingthing is this I/O problem never use to be an issuebut with growth constantly happening it

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-08 Thread Dan Phoenix
Backus [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:41:59AM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: Yes I did and it made some real differences. I enabled it on /usr as well as /var and mounted /var with the noatime

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-08 Thread Anton Berezin
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:41:29PM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: Only thing I do not like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then does not try any others Have a look at smtp_connect_timeout parameter (documented at /usr/local/etc/postfix/sample-smtp.cf). Cheers,

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-08 Thread Matt Dillon
: :Don't forget to put logging and other such things on a separate drive.. :even a small 1G drive as a secondary will be ok, as long as it has soft :updates and doesn't share heads with the work area.. : :vmstat 1 and iostat 1 output would be intersting. : :-- : __--_|\ Julian Elischer

vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Dan Phoenix
I went over to postfix to see if it did better.in fact it did on freebsd but still same problem with I/O. SOlution from talking to some people late last night would be to add another harddrive and stripe it with another drive using vinum. As you all know IDE does not do multitasking unlike

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Matt Dillon
Well, that's a jump. You never said how bumping maxusers went! However, we have finally gotten a clue to how much mail you are pushing.. 600MB in a day. That sure doesn't sound like something I would want to run a machine with an IDE drive. Why not just buy one of those

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Dan Phoenix
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Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010207 13:42] wrote: Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then does not try any others"default"yes there is still backlog with #'s I gave you.

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Dan Phoenix
: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) * Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010207 13:42] wrote: Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then does not try any others"default&qu

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Dan Phoenix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010207 15:30] wrote: Get a hardware raid card, you can even get a bootable IDE RAID, although hotswap scsi means less downtime. For a project this big you're really being pretty thrifty with the hardware allocated to it. The time you save hacking on

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 7 February 2001 at 13:41:29 -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: btw ccd requires 2 other drives am i correct? No, you can use ccd with only 2 drives. So i just remove /var/ basically from fstab ...raid0 2 drives together and mount that as var...is my basic understanding. of course of

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 7 February 2001 at 13:31:26 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: In anycase, while VINUM is great for striping disks I recommend that you use CCD to begin with, because CCD is a whole lot less complex. You can stripe IDE drives but the two drives must be on different IDE

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 7 February 2001 at 13:16:44 -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Andre Oppermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010206 12:07] wrote: Does sendmail even use fsync()? It better. :) Quick

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Matt Dillon
:Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errorsit seemed. Only thing I do not :like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then :does not try any others"default"yes there is still backlog with :#'s I gave you. Right now 8 min to get an email from sending...I have

Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

2001-02-07 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:16:44PM -0800, Dan Phoenix scribbled: | I went over to postfix to see if it did better.in fact it did on | freebsd but still same problem with I/O. SOlution from talking to some | people late last night would be to add another harddrive and stripe it | with another