This is probably drifting off-topic, but I have a few questions regarding
your setup...
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
85.000 aprox. mail account here (spanish web-hosting company) using:
* 25 FreeBSD 7.x as reception-only mailservers (3500 accounts per server
aprox)
* 3 FreeBSD 6.x as sending-only mailserver
What method are you using to spread your mailboxes across multiple boxes?
It sounds like you're not using a single fileserver but hashing the
accounts across servers...
Works like a charm.
Postfix+FreeBSD it's an amazing combination.
Some considerations:
* Branch 7.x it's more superior than 6.x in networking performance.
And if you use mysql, much better threading support...
* UFS2 it's good, but sometimes it's a bottleneck (especially if your're
using a sof-RAID as gmirror(8). It's a good thing to tune FS.
This I've seen as well - gmirror can be dog slow. What options are you
using when you newfs a filesystem for mailboxes (and are you using Maildir
or Cyrus?)? Are you running default gmirror options? Are you running
commodity SATA or SAS drives?
Thanks,
Charles
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Thanks,
Jordi Espasa Clofent
