RE: [vchkpw] [OT] vpopmail cluster + LVS experience

2002-09-24 Thread Brad Dameron

We do about that many connections now without any problems. This is on a
Dual PIII-866 with 1.5gigs of RAM. Using a IDE DMA100 drive for the system
and a raid for the mail. There are a few patches I had to apply to qmail for
it to keep up with a mail however.

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Brad Dameron
Network Account Executive
TSCNet Inc.
 www.tscnet.com
Silverdale, WA. 
1-888-8TSCNET



> -Original Message-
> From: Davide Giunchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 4:40 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [vchkpw] [OT] vpopmail cluster + LVS experience
>
>
> Hello.
>
> What about LVS w/ qmail+vpopmail for load-balancing and ha of
> SMTP and POP3
> services ?
> I'm worried about the ability of LVS to support ~ 300 POP3 + 200 SMTP
> concurrent connections.
> The use of LVS will make the administrator's live easier for
> load-balancing
> feature and high-availability capacity of lvs with mon, but what about
> performance of the single load balancing server that will get a lot of
> connections?
>
> Any advice will be appreciate.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Davide Giunchi.
>




Re: [vchkpw] [OT] vpopmail cluster + LVS experience

2002-09-24 Thread Fredrik Steen

* Davide Giunchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020924 13:40]:
> Hello.
> 
> What about LVS w/ qmail+vpopmail for load-balancing and ha of SMTP and POP3 
> services ?
> I'm worried about the ability of LVS to support ~ 300 POP3 + 200 SMTP 
> concurrent connections.
> The use of LVS will make the administrator's live easier for load-balancing 
> feature and high-availability capacity of lvs with mon, but what about 
> performance of the single load balancing server that will get a lot of 
> connections?

If you use DR (Direct Routing) there is very little data between the client
and the router. For a deeper description se:
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/VS-DRouting.html

Joseph Mach has done some performance testing and have documented it at:
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/Joseph.Mack/performance/single_realserver_performance.html

Patrick O'Rourke and Mike Keefe at Mission Critical Linux have an exelent
document about LVS performance at: 
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/performance/lvs.ps.gz

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.Fredrik Steen
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