From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 4 17:15:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8123737B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:15:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from blue.gerhardt-it.com (gw.gerhardt-it.com [204.83.38.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3BA143E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 17:15:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@g-it.ca) Received: from [24.71.178.119] (h24-71-178-119.ss.shawcable.net [24.71.178.119]) by blue.gerhardt-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7412F100B1; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:15:49 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:15:40 -0600 Subject: Re: qmail + 1 million users From: Scott Gerhardt To: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021104175841.024c8b58@mail.centerone.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hmm, 1,000,000 users with 2MB quota each will require 2TB of disk space minimum! You will need an external fiber channel or similar storage array. On 11/4/02 7:03 PM, "Ralph Forsythe" wrote: > I can't really say on the load balancing, but for the other stuff: >=20 > Your system is probably slow because of the swapping - that's a lot of > continuous CPU and disk activity to slam it. I'd say look at the total > memory usage you have now (ram + swap), figure your growth in and scale > accordingly leaving extra ram on top of that. You should avoid swapping = at > all costs. >=20 > The dual CPU is good, get the most you can afford there. Your main > bottleneck will be the disks - I recommend you actually run more than 2, = if > you can get a high performance RAID controller and several disks running > the load will be split across the spindles and you'll see a major > performance gain, plus data security. With 1 million users I assume you > can afford this. >=20 > If you're load balancing you need to figure out how to replicate the data > across servers. That introduces a lot of complexity into the equation, > since I'm sure there are multiple ways to accomplish what you need but > finding the best one for your scenario and budget could be tricky... >=20 > -rf >=20 > At 04:17 PM 11/4/2002 -0600, you wrote: >> Hi all >>=20 >> i have almost 1 million users and i am using qmail with vpopmail >> right now i have a compaq proliant 2 procesors p III and 1GB ram >> users have 2MB Quota but the servers is geting slow, and i am using almo= st >> all my swap partition (85%) what hardware do you recomend for this serve= r >> and how can i balance the load on the server >>=20 >> I am thinking on a dual xeon DELL poweredge 6600 with 6GB ram and two 73= Gb >> SCSI >>=20 >> Thanks >>=20 >>=20 >> ----------------------------------------- >> "UNIXMEXICO la comunidad *nix en todo M=E9xico!" >> http://www.unixmexico.org/ >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message --=20 Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies [G-IT] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message