From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 8:36:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.akalink.com (akalink.com [64.23.81.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD88A37B61A for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 08:36:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfortin@akalink.com) Received: (qmail 62924 invoked from network); 19 May 2001 15:34:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO node00) (64.23.81.14) by akalink.com with SMTP; 19 May 2001 15:34:32 -0000 Message-ID: <000901c0e079$3d332300$bdaee540@node00> Reply-To: "Jonathan Fortin" From: "Jonathan Fortin" To: References: Subject: Re: clustering Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:34:48 -0400 Organization: Akalink Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would recommend raid 0+1. It will add redundancy without compromising speed thus the speed would be as fast as a normal disk. Basically it requires a minimum of 4 disk, 2 strips of 2 disks mirrored. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Kelley" To: "Jonathan Fortin" Cc: Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 11:53 AM Subject: Re: clustering > > should be noted that there's a *big* difference between 100000 unique > mails and a mailer with 100000 bcc's. if it's the former (and you are > using qmail), you'll wnat to do things like putting the queue on it's own > disk, and making sure that logging goes to another disk. > if it's the latter, the network should be the primary concern. in either > case, qmail will handele it. > > dan > > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Jonathan Fortin wrote: > > > Well one tuned box can do a minimum of atleast > > 200 * 86400 = 17,280,000 (17 million) emails per day. > > which would be 720,000 mails per hour depending on the type of connection > > and latency you got. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ask Bjoern Hansen" > > To: "Luke Kearney" > > Cc: "Free BSD" > > Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 6:41 AM > > Subject: Re: clustering > > > > > > > On Sat, 19 May 2001, Luke Kearney wrote: > > > > > > > The mail servers will need to handle up to 100000 mails in one mail out > > so > > > > am thinking to go with Qmail unless anyone can give me some better > > > > alternatives. > > > > > > One welltuned box with qmail and dnscache should easily be able to > > > send out 100000 mails per hour. That's less than 30 per second... > > > > > > > > > > > > - ask > > > > > > -- > > > ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do(); > > > more than 100M impressions per day, http://valueclick.com > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message