System I/O error on reconstruct after nuking cyrus.* files

2007-10-04 Thread Rick Kunkel
Hello all, Is this normal? I swear to have seen people suggesting trashing cyrus.* files and running reconstruct on the user, but I'm having no luck. In this case, that was not what was attempted, but the end result is the same. The cyrus.* files are gone. See for yourself... -rw--- 1

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:33:58PM -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: > > > Xue, Jack C wrote: > > At Marshall University, We have 30K users (200M quota) on Cyrus. We use > > a Murder Aggregation Setup which consists of 2 frontend node, 2 backend > > nodes > Interesting, but this is approximately 15K use

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Rob Mueller
> Anyhow, just wondering if we the lone rangers on this particular > edge of the envelope. We alleviated the problem short-term by > recycling some V240 class systems with arrays into Cyrus boxes > with about 3,500 users each, and brought our 2 big Cyrus units > down to 13K-14K users each which s

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Vincent Fox
Xue, Jack C wrote: > At Marshall University, We have 30K users (200M quota) on Cyrus. We use > a Murder Aggregation Setup which consists of 2 frontend node, 2 backend > nodes Interesting, but this is approximately 15K users per backend. Which is where we are now after 30K users per backend were

RE: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Xue, Jack C
At Marshall University, We have 30K users (200M quota) on Cyrus. We use a Murder Aggregation Setup which consists of 2 frontend node, 2 backend nodes and a master node (all are Dell 1855 Blades). We then further divide the users into 2 storage partitions on each backend (Totals 4 cyrus partitions,

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Robert Banz
> > One of the things Rob Banz recently did here was to move the data/ > config/proc directory from a "real" fs to tmpfs. This reduces the > disk IO from Cyrus process creation/management. > > So the way we do stuff here is that each Cyrus backend has its own > ZFS pool. That zpool is divided up in

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Dale Ghent
On Oct 4, 2007, at 2:41 PM, Vincent Fox wrote: > We spent some time talking to Ken & Co. at CMU on the phone > about what happens in very high loads but haven't come to a > "fix" for what happened to us. There may not be one. I can and > will describe all the nitty-gritty of that post-mortem in

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Jim Howell
Hi, We have around 35k users spread out on 5 different systems. The largest of which has 12K active users and 200K messages per day. We do our anti-spam/anti-virus on other systems before delivering to the 5 mailbox systems. I'm guessing you don't have that type of setup? Jim Vincent Fo

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Vincent Fox
I suppose I should have given a better description: University mail setup with 60K-ish faculty, staff, and students all in one big pool no separation into this server for faculty and this one for students, etc. Load-balanced pools of smallish v240 class servers for: SMTP MX AV/spam scanning LDAP

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Rafael Mahecha
We run a single dell 2850 (2-dual @ 2.8GHz, 8gb ram and 900gb internal). have about 29k users... but our message transfer load is much smaller than what you describe... may be in the order of 10k the systems is at 80+ idle most of the time. We will have this setup for about 1 yr now... no ma

Re: LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread John Madden
> We have talked to UCSB, which is running 30K users on a single > Sun V490 system. However they seem to have fairly low activity > levels with emails in the hundred-thousands range not millions. We've got around 250k users on a single system, but we're in that same boat: only about 300k emails/d

subscribing all users to all folders

2007-10-04 Thread Gerard
I have a system with about 20k users and I need to subscribe all of those users to all of the folders that they have ever created. I was thinking about scripting this by generating a mailbox list and echoing the folders per user to the .sub file. This seems like it could provide some unexpected res

LARGE single-system Cyrus installs?

2007-10-04 Thread Vincent Fox
Wondering if anyone out there is running a LARGE Cyrus user-base on a single or a couple of systems? Let me define large: 25K-30K (or more) users per system High email activity, say 2+ million emails a day We have talked to UCSB, which is running 30K users on a single Sun V490 system. However

move imapd from 32bit to 64bit machine

2007-10-04 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
Hi all, I am planning to move my mail server from an i586 to a x86_64 box. I removed the db* directories from the imapconfig directory, and ran a reconstruct on all mailboxes. That prevented the lmtpd to crash all the time. I think this is because of the different (32bit 64bit) db4 versions. I h

Re: Cyrus quota -f not working as expected

2007-10-04 Thread George Cooke
Read some excerpts of manging IMAP Mail online ( http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html) and deleting the quota root file and creating a new quota root using cyradm>setquota and then fixing with quota -f seemed to force cyrus to calculate the new filesystem disk usage. Not sure if