From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 4 23:57: 2 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 AD6C537B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:56:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.voljatel.si (mail.voljatel.si [217.72.64.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DF2D43E6E for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 23:56:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jaka.erjavec@telemach.net) Received: from I.own.voljatel.net (I.own.voljatel.net [217.72.76.200]) by mail.voljatel.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA914A313; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:56:46 +0100 (CET) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jaka Erjavec Reply-To: jaka.erjavec@telemach.net To: Subject: Re: qmail + 1 million users Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:58:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211050858.17454.jaka.erjavec@telemach.net> 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 Hello, Maybe this question is a bit out of the topic but I am wondering how are = you=20 handeling authentication for all this users. You are probably not using=20 system users, or do you?=20 Thanks, Jaka=20 On Tuesday 05 November 2002 02:15, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > 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 ar= ray. > > On 11/4/02 7:03 PM, "Ralph Forsythe" wrote: > > I can't really say on the load balancing, but for the other stuff: > > > > Your system is probably slow because of the swapping - that's a lot o= f > > continuous CPU and disk activity to slam it. I'd say look at the tot= al > > memory usage you have now (ram + swap), figure your growth in and sca= le > > accordingly leaving extra ram on top of that. You should avoid swapp= ing > > at all costs. > > > > 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 m= ajor > > performance gain, plus data security. With 1 million users I assume = you > > can afford this. > > > > 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 equatio= n, > > since I'm sure there are multiple ways to accomplish what you need bu= t > > finding the best one for your scenario and budget could be tricky... > > > > -rf > > > > At 04:17 PM 11/4/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >> Hi all > >> > >> 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 > >> almost all my swap partition (85%) what hardware do you recomend for > >> this server and how can i balance the load on the server > >> > >> I am thinking on a dual xeon DELL poweredge 6600 with 6GB ram and tw= o > >> 73Gb SCSI > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> > >> ----------------------------------------- > >> "UNIXMEXICO la comunidad *nix en todo M=E9xico!" > >> http://www.unixmexico.org/ > >> > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message