Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-05-10 Thread Nik Conwell
On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: As for complexity? It's on the cusp. We've certainly had many more users on a single instance before, but we prefer to keep under 10k users per Cyrus instance these days for quicker recoverability. It really Hi - just a clarification

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-05-10 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:30:11AM -0400, Nik Conwell wrote: On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote: As for complexity? It's on the cusp. We've certainly had many more users on a single instance before, but we prefer to keep under 10k users per Cyrus instance these days for

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes (Thanks)

2007-04-11 Thread lartc
Hi Nestor, Would love to the impad.conf and cyrus.conf if you would be so kind as to share them ... Cheers Charles On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 01:15 -0500, Nestor A. Diaz wrote: Thank you all of you who give me that precious tips, i am going to put them on practice, and i will tell you when the

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:56:43 -0500, Nestor A. Diaz wrote: Subject: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes These are the plans: (comments on every number will be apreciated) 1. Linux LVM over a 600 GB RAID 10 ( 4 x 300 GB) I would only ever be able to recommend NetBSD or FreeBSD

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:58:23PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:56:43 -0500 1. Linux LVM over a 600 GB RAID 10 ( 4 x 300 GB) 2. Which filesystem seems to be the better ? ext3 ? xfs ? reiserfs ? Do NEVER use XFS on GNU/Linux. (C)XFS is a brilliant FS on sgi's

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Nestor A. Diaz wrote: These are the plans: (comments on every number will be apreciated) I (at Ghent university) use: 1. Linux LVM over a 600 GB RAID 10 ( 4 x 300 GB) An EMC CX400 and CX500, with fibre channel and ata disks. 12 luns are 400 GiG raid 5, 6 of them on FC disks

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread John Madden
2. Which filesystem seems to be the better ? ext3 ? xfs ? reiserfs ? We are using xfs. I tested xfs before going back to reiserfs. I found the performance to be acceptable aside from quite miserable backup performance once backups kicked off. (Although reiserfs is now pretty miserable,

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
2. Which filesystem seems to be the better ? ext3 ? xfs ? reiserfs ? We are using xfs. I tested xfs before going back to reiserfs. I found the performance to be acceptable aside from quite miserable backup performance once backups kicked off. (Although reiserfs is now pretty

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-11 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:51:57 -0700, David R Bosso [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: --On April 11, 2007 8:26:37 PM +1000 Bron Gondwana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We also apply one patch to reiserfs. It's a one liner, using generic_write rather than the Hans Reiser special (5% faster, can

Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Nestor A. Diaz
Hello People, I am a proud cyrus user and fan, right know i need o implement a 15K users cyrus mailstore, since i have been using cyrus for an average 400 users mailstore, i will like to hear comments for setting up a cyrus for a 15K users. I currently have a ' postfix / postgresql /

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Zachariah Mully
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 06:56 -0500, Nestor A. Diaz wrote: Hello People, I am a proud cyrus user and fan, right know i need o implement a 15K users cyrus mailstore, since i have been using cyrus for an average 400 users mailstore, i will like to hear comments for setting up a cyrus for a

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread John Madden
My guess: ext3. ReiferFS has some very annoying weaknesses that may affect you. Please specify those weaknesses. 250,000 mailboxes on reiserfs right now, always open to options. John -- John Madden Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Chuck Amadi
John Madden wrote: My guess: ext3. ReiferFS has some very annoying weaknesses that may affect you. Please specify those weaknesses. 250,000 mailboxes on reiserfs right now, always open to options. John Hi May be of interest regarding point 2. I saved this postfix post not

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread John Madden
The main problem I'm aware of is that in the event of a problem, reiserfsck 1) can take a long time (like weeks) to complete, 2) doesn't necessarily fix the problems. ext3 doesn't have these problems. Indeed, I've seen reiserfs do some very long fsck's, but I've seen the same out of

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Please specify those weaknesses. 250,000 mailboxes on reiserfs right now, always open to options. The main problem I'm aware of is that in the event of a problem, reiserfsck 1) can take a long time (like weeks) to complete, 2) doesn't necessarily fix the problems. ext3 doesn't have these

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Nestor A. Diaz wrote: Hello People, I am a proud cyrus user and fan, right know i need o implement a 15K users cyrus mailstore, since i have been using cyrus for an average 400 users mailstore, i will like to hear comments for setting up a cyrus for a 15K users. I

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Andy Fiddaman
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Timo Schoeler wrote: ; ; Best: ZFS on Solaris ;) Or now on MacOSX (Leopard) or on FreeBSD (7.0)! (although Solaris is likely to remain the most stable implementation for the moment) Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ:

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Wesley Craig
On 10 Apr 2007, at 12:40, John Madden wrote: Indeed, I've seen reiserfs do some very long fsck's, but I've seen the same out of ext3. But for a filesystem of 35 million mail files, I figure it's got to beat ext3 on performance, at least. ...But there don't seem to be any stats at this scale to

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Timo Schoeler
; Best: ZFS on Solaris ;) Or now on MacOSX (Leopard) or on FreeBSD (7.0)! both are not officially supported; ZFS support on FreeBSD is experimental. furthermore, as a (not only, but also) Mac user for more than 15 years who dropped use of Apple products entirely in 2005 (yes, there were good

Re: Recomendations for a 15000 Cyrus Mailboxes

2007-04-10 Thread Robert Mueller
1. Linux LVM over a 600 GB RAID 10 ( 4 x 300 GB) 2. Which filesystem seems to be the better ? ext3 ? xfs ? reiserfs ? 3. Which options to format the filesystem ? acording to the chosed filesystem 4. Which pop3 / imap proxy to use ? 5. Single instance or multiple instances of