If the load is that large it would probably justify a hardware or dedicated software load-balancing solution. Doesn't Red hat appears to have an "active" load balancing solution: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/advserver/RHLAS-2.1-Manual/install-guide/ s1-lvs-scheduling.html http://makeashorterlink.com/?B31852682
Hardware wise, you could probably pick up a couple Cisco local redirector at auction. I assume this stuff is important and you need redundancy and failover. This is certainly not an issue to dedicate SA gurus against. It's been done, why re-invent the wheel? -----Original Message----- From: Rich Puhek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:17 PM To: Justin Mason Cc: Ralf Hildebrandt; Mark M; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Distribute the load True, spamd doesn't need much for state info, and each connection is independent of other connections. I was thinking along the lines of spamc trying to do the load-ballancing by determining which server out of a list it should contact, as opposed to having multiple IP addresses for an A-record. If spamc was chosing which of a list of servers it should contact, it would either have to pick randomly, or would have to have some way of "remembering" which server(s) had been picked in the past. Mostly thinking aloud. The round-robin DNS solution appears to be the best bet. Doesn't seem to be much advantage in having spamc handle the ballancing act. --Rich Justin Mason wrote: > Rich Puhek said: > >>The conceptual problem with doing round-robin spamd servers is that >>the >>mail server itself would have to maintain some state info to determine >>which spamd server it shoud contact (unless it randomly selected one). >>Given most implementations (procmail for lots of us), maintaining state >>info from one mail message to another would be tricky. > > > spamd needs very little state, apart from user preferences. > > Using a round-robin DNS A record, and NFS-mounted user dirs or an SQL > database, this is pretty trivial, and is std practice for most big > SpamAssassin-using sites ;) > > --j. > -- _________________________________________________________ Rich Puhek ETN Systems Inc. 2125 1st Ave East Hibbing MN 55746 tel: 218.262.1130 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
