From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 5 6:41:10 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 0AAE937B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 06:41:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns3.unixmexico.net (ns3.unixmexico.net [64.141.69.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D83243E42 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 06:41:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbari@unixmexico.com) Received: (qmail 9352 invoked by uid 85); 5 Nov 2002 14:41:08 -0000 Received: from nbari@unixmexico.com by ns1.unixmexico.net by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.14 ( Clear:. Processed in 0.0161 secs); 05 Nov 2002 14:41:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO unixmexico.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.unixmexico.net with SMTP; 5 Nov 2002 14:41:07 -0000 Received: from 200.67.190.71 (SquirrelMail authenticated user nbari@unixmexico.com) by mail.unixmexico.net with HTTP; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:41:07 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <61336.200.67.190.71.1036507267.squirrel@mail.unixmexico.net> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:41:07 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: qmail + 1 million users From: To: In-Reply-To: <200211050858.17454.jaka.erjavec@telemach.net> References: <200211050858.17454.jaka.erjavec@telemach.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.9) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 I am using mysql authentication for all users (i use vpopmail vchkpw) what do you recomend for authentification of all users ? > Hello, > > Maybe this question is a bit out of the topic but I am wondering how are > you handeling authentication for all this users. You are probably not > using system users, or do you? > > Thanks, > Jaka > > 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 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: >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > 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... >> > >> > -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 >> two 73Gb SCSI >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> >> "UNIXMEXICO la comunidad *nix en todo México!" >> >> 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 ----------------------------------------- "UNIXMEXICO la comunidad *nix en todo México!" http://www.unixmexico.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message