All, this is really OT, but we are now looking at our first LVS system and are wondering if we can get some recommendations from people about their favorite setups. We are currently leaning toward a system that includes:
http://www.ultramonkey.org/ Ideas, links, thoughts really appreciated! --- Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:53 AM > > To: Marc Powell > > Cc: [email protected]; Marc Powell > > Subject: RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect > > > > > What is your technical reason for this suggestion and admonition? > I've > > > been storing mail on NFS servers successfully for almost 10 years > now > > > with tens of thousands of active users. I've not experienced any > > > problems yet and I don't expect to. > > > > We tried it over a weekend; NFS performance with load-balanced courier > > IMAP > > daemons performed much worse than native storage and single imapd's. > > I have not experienced any performance problems with that exact setup. I > would say having 36942 email accounts is a pretty good pool to gather > data from. I've used a similar setup with >50,000 accounts as well. It > sounds to me that you may have had some configuration or hardware issue > that you didn't discover. As far as using a single imapd, you're awfully > trusting that you won't have any problems IMHO. Lack of redundancy can > become very obvious when you have a failure. > > > > If a server is down the DNS RR will still redirect users to it. > > > > Yeah, and the RR will redirect users to the down server too. Better > to > > leave it > > Isn't that what I just said? > > > to the MX, where remote MTA's will stop using downed servers > > automatically. > > He wasn't asking about MTA's but about imap/http load balancing via DNS > RR. It will work just fine given the caveat above. > > > Sorry, DNS isn't the proper way to do load balancing. > > No perhaps not, but it can be effective and it's easy to do if you don't > have mission critical applications. > > -- > Marc > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ids93&alloc_id281&op=click > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting Guidelines: > http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines > List Address: [email protected] > List Archives: > http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
