Re: New Hardware

2004-12-06 Thread Nix
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Jeff Chan muttered drunkenly: > On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 8:17:14 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: >> how do i check whether SA is using >> the locally stored file or whether is still querying the surbl.org DNS? >> Is there an easy way if your not a bind / DNS guru? > > A dig may

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 8:17:14 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: > how do i check whether SA is using > the locally stored file or whether is still querying the surbl.org DNS? > Is there an easy way if your not a bind / DNS guru? A dig may tell what name server it thinks it's using. Jeff C. -- Je

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Ronan
Martin Hepworth wrote: Ronan wrote: Ok well I hounded or DNS guys to finally put multi.surbls.org into the dns(as a master), watched him HUP named and then should i notice a difference?? im still getting 10+ seconds scantime on some messages.. how do i tell if its working? well granted i sh

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Martin Hepworth
Ronan wrote: Ok well I hounded or DNS guys to finally put multi.surbls.org into the dns(as a master), watched him HUP named and then should i notice a difference?? im still getting 10+ seconds scantime on some messages.. how do i tell if its working? message size issues??? if you can trap on

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Ronan
Rick Beebe wrote: Ronan wrote: Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup was hitting load max they found some cas

Re: New Hardware

2004-12-01 Thread Rick Beebe
Ronan wrote: Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup was hitting load max they found some cash for me... :D We

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Dennis Davis
>Subject: RE: New Hardware >Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:42:02 -0800 >From: "Gary W. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Ronan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, spam > >We use 4 single processor machines 2.8ghz P4 HT and we are doing >150k per day now without breaking a s

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote: > Depending on your setup, you can probably do without heartbeat. Why not just > have simple 50/50 load-sharing? We have a 64-node SA cluster working like > this - only individual servers such as the master node run in an HA setup. Forgot to say - these are all dual-processor

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Per Jessen
Ronan wrote: > Which one will be better suited to SA? I know SA is more cpu/ram than > disk IO so im leaning more toward the AMD approach. The reason there are > 2 machines of each is because im gonna implement fail over using > heartbeat. Depending on your setup, you can probably do without hea

RE: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Gary W. Smith
the nodes for maintenance without any customer impact at all. Gary > -Original Message- > From: Ronan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:29 AM > To: spam > Subject: New Hardware > > Hey list, > I am in the quite sureal situatio

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Ronan wrote: > What Im currently looking at is either 2 Sun v150s or 2 > dual-opterons probably with a gig each, and the standard 80+gigs. > Which one will be better suited to SA? I know SA is more cpu/ram > than disk IO so im leaning more toward the AMD approach. I would recommend going with Linu

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread jay
You might also look at Solaris X86. I've just brought up such a box, and am impressed with the performance relative to Linux on the same box. jay Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 4:28:35 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Ronan
Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 4:28:35 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Martin Hepworth
Ronan I'd go for dual opteron V20z if you want to stick with sun kit. Will outperform the Sparc based stuff. no need to heart-beat, just have the two machines on same MX value and DNS will load balance for you. Would be interesting to see how Solaris 10 compares with Linux in this environment -

Re: New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 4:28:35 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote: > Hey list, > I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by > my > boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the > upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup

New Hardware

2004-11-30 Thread Ronan
Hey list, I am in the quite sureal situation of being given a blank cheque by my boss to buy 2 new servers for SA. They were so impressed with the upgrade to v3 + SURIBLS et al that when i said that our current setup was hitting load max they found some cash for me... :D We are in a university