Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Simon Matter
Bron Gondwana wrote: I assume you mean 500 gigs! We're switching from 300 to 500 on new filesystems because we have one business customer that's over 150Gb now and we want to keep all their users on the one partition for folder sharing. We don't do any murder though. Oops yes. I meant

Re: Cyrus-imapd 2.3.14 - timsieved - Fedora 11-problem

2009-09-29 Thread Georg Stich
Hello again ! I tried to patch all files described in the Bug Tracker Horde and elsewhere. It doesnt. work. I got Not in Authetication State May be i am a little confused about all, hmm . Could anybody post a (simple) workaround or howto get running ingo 1.2.1 or 1.22 with cyrus-imapd

Re: Cyrus-imapd 2.3.14 - timsieved - Fedora 11-problem

2009-09-29 Thread Matt Selsky
On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Georg Stich wrote: I tried to patch all files described in the Bug Tracker Horde and elsewhere. It doesnt. work. I got Not in Authetication State May be i am a little confused about all, hmm . Could anybody post a (simple) workaround or howto get running ingo

Re: Cyrus-imapd 2.3.14 - timsieved - Fedora 11-problem

2009-09-29 Thread Georg Stich
Matt Selsky wrote: On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:48 AM, Georg Stich wrote: I tried to patch all files described in the Bug Tracker Horde and elsewhere. It doesnt. work. I got Not in Authetication State May be i am a little confused about all, hmm . Could anybody post a (simple) workaround or howto

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:45:53AM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: What I'm really wondering, what filesystem disasters have others seen? How many times was it fsck only, how many times was it really broken. I'm not talking about laptop and desktop users but about production systems in a production

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:33 -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: [...] Really I've looked at fsck too many times in my life and don't ever want to again. Anyone who tells me oh yes but Especially not in the 100GB area. [...] The antiquated filesystems that 99% of admins tolerate and work with every day

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:59:39PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: Does anyone has scripts/tools to - at least - simulate 1000s of (semi-realistic) parallel IMAP clients on a big setup? Yeah, I've got one. I need to tidy it up a bit more though, and they're a bit less realistic than I'd like.

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Simon Matter
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:45:53AM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: What I'm really wondering, what filesystem disasters have others seen? How many times was it fsck only, how many times was it really broken. I'm not talking about laptop and desktop users but about production systems in a

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Brian Awood
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 @ 06:59, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:33 -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: [...] Really I've looked at fsck too many times in my life and don't ever want to again. Anyone who tells me oh yes but Especially not in the 100GB area. We haven't

deliver.db in /dev/shm

2009-09-29 Thread Carles Xavier Munyoz Baldó
Hello, May I put the database file deliver.db in the /dev/shm partition. I have disabled duplicatesuppression and I believe that I will save lot of I/O requests to my hard drives if I put this file in memory. I'am right? Which problems will I have with this file in memory? I know that I will

Re: Cyrus-imapd 2.3.14 - timsieved - Fedora 11-problem

2009-09-29 Thread Matt Selsky
On Sep 29, 2009, at 5:39 AM, Georg Stich wrote: I use now a fresh installation wir php-pear-Net-Sieve 1.1.7 . Do i need install TLS /SSL Support on this System ( in postfix or somewhere else ) If you have TLS enabled in Cyrus for sieve, then you'll need to make sure your PHP has TLS

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Vincent Fox
Bron Gondwana wrote: It's an interesting one. For real reliability, I want to have multiple replication target supported cleanly. So the issues for me with Cyrus replication: 1) Is it working? Is the replica actually up to date and more importantly what if I switch to it and there is

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Vincent Fox
Simon Matter wrote: What I'm really wondering, what filesystem disasters have others seen? How many times was it fsck only, how many times was it really broken. I'm not talking about laptop and desktop users but about production systems in a production environment with production class hardware

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Robert Banz
With my ever-growing experience with these things, I'm tending to think that application-level HA solutions are a much more robust way of dealing with the potential failure modes of hardware or software. While this doesn't mean you shouldn't buy reasonably robust hardware (not the cheapest

moving to new cyrus

2009-09-29 Thread Maria McKinley
Hello, My mail server is ancient, both in hardware and software, so I am working on updating it. I started with a fresh install on a new machine. My /var/cyrus directory is on its own hard drive. I copied everything from the /var/cyrus directory onto a separate hard drive, which I mounted on

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:19:13AM -0400, Brian Awood wrote: On Tuesday 29 September 2009 @ 06:59, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:33 -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: [...] Really I've looked at fsck too many times in my life and don't ever want to again. Anyone who

Re: deliver.db in /dev/shm

2009-09-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:29:30PM +0200, Carles Xavier Munyoz Baldó wrote: Hello, May I put the database file deliver.db in the /dev/shm partition. I have disabled duplicatesuppression and I believe that I will save lot of I/O requests to my hard drives if I put this file in memory.

Re: moving to new cyrus

2009-09-29 Thread Maria McKinley
brian wrote: You might want to consider doing a complete, fresh install and using imapsync to move the mailboxes from one machine to the other. That way, you'll know that the newer Cyrus has everything it needs and is up to date. I've only used it once but it worked flawlessly.

Re: moving to new cyrus

2009-09-29 Thread Duncan Gibb
Maria McKinley wrote: MMcK while installing/updating to newest cyrus on the new machine MMcK I noticed lines like this: Creating/updating cyrus control directories in /var/cyrus/data... Creating/updating partition spool /var/cyrus/mail... MMcK which leads me to believe there are changes that

saslauthd w/postfix smtp only works the first time

2009-09-29 Thread ravi raju
Folks, I set up cyrus sasl2 to work with postfix smtp server. I am able to send e-mail by authenticating via sasl the first time after I start the saslauthd process. When I send another e-mail, it doesn't work. I looked through different logs, here is what I find: 1. Start saslauthd. I checked

Statistics on message sizes, folders, etc

2009-09-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
Well, I figure this is interesting anyway - rough statistics on how many folders users have, how big their messages are, how much churn the folders have. Source code attached (including a copy of IndexFile.pm which it requires to read the index files) I've tried to make it compatible with

Re: Implement Cyrus IMAPD in High Load Enviromment

2009-09-29 Thread Brian Awood
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 @ 18:41, Bron Gondwana wrote: Possibly the secret is that we use IPAddr2 from linux-ha to force ARP flushes, and we transfer the primary IP address between machines, so nothing else needs to know - we just shut down one end and bring up the other with the IP and