Re: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:03:20AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > You have to either be doing something very intensive or very wrong to need > more than one server for 20K users. Last time I did this I got 250K users > per server, and I believe that I could have easily doubled that if I was > al

Re: ..Debian rejects Microsoft's "Sender ID" on contractual terms

2004-09-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:26:53PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 02:01:28 +1000, Russell wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0907opensourc.html?net > > ..hear, hear. But you guys let the weenies get away with confusing > their "end u

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread andrew
Hi Marcin, How many files do you have in a single directory? > 100 ? Which filesystem are you using? You may want to try playimg with reiserfs... Regards Andrew Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:03:20AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: You have to either be doing something very intensi

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sep 9, 2004, at 2:44 AM, Marcin Owsiany wrote: More than 90% of the disk transactions are on the (logical) disk where mail is stored. The only processes which touch that disk, are qmail delivery processes (qmail handed mail by another SMTP-IN box: 0.8 local deliveries per second) and courierpop3

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:43:21AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Sep 9, 2004, at 2:44 AM, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > >More than 90% of the disk transactions are on the (logical) disk where > >mail is stored. The only processes which touch that disk, are qmail > >delivery processes (qmail handed

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread Ruth A. Kramer
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On behalf of all joe-job victims: Whatever you do, *please* do it in a way > that allows you to know whether mail is going to be delivered at the > front-end incoming SMTP server. (should be trivial if your user database is > in LDAP or some SQL db or w

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread Marek Podmaka
Citát "Ruth A. Kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > On behalf of all joe-job victims: Whatever you do, *please* do it in a way > > that allows you to know whether mail is going to be delivered at the > > front-end incoming SMTP server. (should be trivial i

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread Maykel Moya
> For the same reason I have some regexp patterns build into postfix body_checks > for most common viruses. Postfix rejects these mails immediately. This usually > catch about 90% of viruses, so I save a lot of CPU in virus checking of > incoming mail... Could you send your regexes, 90% of viruses

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:32:04 +0200, Marek wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Citát "Ruth A. Kramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > > On behalf of all joe-job victims: Whatever you do, *please* do it > > > in a way that allows you to know whether m

Re: RAID 1 HELP!!!

2004-09-09 Thread Agustín Ciciliani
Dear Lucas, I tried with linear and my debian just boot! I'm sending to you my lilo.conf file (in case it seems to you useful for your how-to with LILO) after making some changes that "lilo-doc" recommended for raid booting. As I thought it couldn't be the only problem... Could you take a look t

Re: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 18:44, Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:03:20AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > You have to either be doing something very intensive or very wrong to > > need more than one server for 20K users. Last time I did this I got 250K > > users per

Re[2]: High volume mail handling architecture

2004-09-09 Thread Marek Podmaka
Hello Maykel, Thursday, September 9, 2004, 15:59:02, you wrote: MM> Could you send your regexes, 90% of viruses stopped by regexes sounds MM> interesting. In fact most of them are stopped by general regexps rejecting some dangerous attachments, so only those with .exe and .zip (which I can't blo