Re: Honesty needed...

2005-07-02 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 11:04:34AM +0800, Jeffrey Lim wrote: how about the mail store then? I suppose there'll have to be some coordinated (and thread-friendly) back-end mail store in place for these front-end mail servers (*i'm assuming simplistic load-balancing here - at the tcp level,

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-07-01 Thread Tobias Weingartner
I'm late to the game... but why not split the load over a number of servers? Using carp for reduncancy, rdr/round-robin and/or hash, you should be able to spread the load some. --Toby. On Wednesday, June 29, Jeffrey Lim wrote: On 6/29/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just spoke with

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-07-01 Thread Bob Beck
I concur. mail load is ideally suited for dividing up amongst multiple machines (with then multiple i/o busses, etc. etc.). I far prefer this method to the one big machine method. -Bob * Tobias Weingartner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-01 10:11]: I'm late to the game...

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Lim
how about the mail store then? I suppose there'll have to be some coordinated (and thread-friendly) back-end mail store in place for these front-end mail servers (*i'm assuming simplistic load-balancing here - at the tcp level, rather than at the application level, or splitting via userid, so that

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-06-28 Thread Joe .
Can you live with just one processor? You would probably have much better luck with SMP disabled. Joe On 6/28/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Some of you have read my posts from the previous few days but I am really stuck right now. Sorry if this is repeated information

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-06-28 Thread Matt Juszczak
Either, I think in general SMP is tough to get stable. People with more experience will hopefully reply and explain in more detail. For now I, personally, would disable smp on freebsd just to keep it stable. I just dont know if this will keep it stable or not. Others are reporting that the

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-06-28 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 6/28/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My boss really wants to run SMP. He [...] thinks that a single 3 ghz with 4 gb RAM couldn't handle our mail server [...] To avoid making CLM's, you should realise these lists are archived indefinitely. If things are crashing twice a day and

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-06-28 Thread Matt Juszczak
According to http://www.freebsd.org/security/ the current estimated EOL for 4.11 is January 31, 2007 That said, since you think IPF is causing problems, have your tried disabling IPF and running either ipfilter or PF (or doing the filtering on a dedicated firewall box)? --Matt Yep, I

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-06-28 Thread Matt Rowley
According to http://www.freebsd.org/security/ the current estimated EOL for 4.11 is January 31, 2007 That said, since you think IPF is causing problems, have your tried disabling IPF and running either ipfilter or PF (or doing the filtering on a dedicated firewall box)? --Matt --On

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-06-28 Thread Vjacheslav Borisov
We're running FreeBSD at work on our main mail server, which is now crashing 2 times per day. I need to find a new solution soon, or I could risk losing my job which would really stink. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In computing, the DragonFly BSD