Re: choosing a file system

2009-01-02 Thread ram
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 13:21 +1100, Rob Mueller wrote: > > Now see, I've had almost exactly the opposite experience. Reiserfs seemed > > to > > start out well and work consistently until the filesystem reached a > > certain > > size (around 160GB, ~30m files) at which point backing it up would s

Storage Sizing: IOPS per mailbox

2009-01-02 Thread ram
When sizing a storage device for a large cyrus server, the typical question asked by storage vendors is what is the IOPS required per mailbox M$$ Exchange has this concept of IOPS. and they suggest 1.5 IOPS per mailbox ( heavy users ) If I use postfix and cyrus , on my imap server ( pure IMAP se

Re: choosing a file system

2009-01-02 Thread Rob Mueller
> Now see, I've had almost exactly the opposite experience. Reiserfs seemed > to > start out well and work consistently until the filesystem reached a > certain > size (around 160GB, ~30m files) at which point backing it up would start > to > take too long and at around 180GB would take nearly

Re: ldapdb auxprop configuration

2009-01-02 Thread Dan White
Lars Hanke wrote: > hermod:/# saslpluginviewer -a > Installed auxprop mechanisms are: > ldapdb sasldb > List of auxprop plugins follows > Plugin "ldapdb" , API version: 4 >supports store: yes > > Plugin "sasldb" , API version: 4 >supports store: yes > > Didn't know this

Re: ldapdb auxprop configuration

2009-01-02 Thread Lars Hanke
Thanks Dan, > To make sure that the ldapdb plugin is installed correctly: > # cat > /usr/lib/sasl2/pluginview.conf > # pluginviewer | grep ldapdb hermod:/# grep sasl /etc/imapd.conf | grep -v '^#' | grep -v '^\s*$' | sed 's/^sasl_//' > /usr/lib/sasl2/pluginviewer.conf hermod:/# saslpluginviewe

Re: login issues

2009-01-02 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
-- dick hoogendijk is rumored to have mumbled on 2. Januar 2009 21:04:37 +0100 regarding login issues: All mail users are in sasldb. But now the problem is that I get more and more outlook (MS) clients that can't do CRAM-MD5. So, I guess the imapd.conf I use needs some tweaking. What do I have

login issues

2009-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
All mail users are in sasldb. But now the problem is that I get more and more outlook (MS) clients that can't do CRAM-MD5. So, I guess the imapd.conf I use needs some tweaking. What do I have to change so that outlook express users can login? The users are just -mail- users and have NO UNIX account

Re: ldapdb auxprop configuration

2009-01-02 Thread Dan White
Lars Hanke wrote: > I'm trying set up cyrus-imap using the ldapdb auxprop. I guess I've the > LDAP part up and running, but somehow imap does not really request for > authentication. So probably I still have something messed in the > configuration, which apparently has changed with respect to my

ldapdb auxprop configuration

2009-01-02 Thread Lars Hanke
I'm trying set up cyrus-imap using the ldapdb auxprop. I guess I've the LDAP part up and running, but somehow imap does not really request for authentication. So probably I still have something messed in the configuration, which apparently has changed with respect to my last install a couple of

GSSAPI authentication ceased working

2009-01-02 Thread Lars Hanke
I'm currently setting up a new imap server to replace my old one. Yesterday I had GSSAPI authentication running, today it ceased working. I did quite some configuration in the meantime mostly on the LDAP server, but nothing I'd readily associate with cyrus-imap authentication. I appreciate any

Re: choosing a file system

2009-01-02 Thread John Madden
> Now from our experience, I can tell you that ext3 really does poorly on > this workload compared to reiserfs. We had two exact same servers, one all > reiserfs and one all ext3. The ext3 one started out ok, but over the course > of a few weeks/months, it started getting worse and worse and was >