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Date:      Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:42:30 -0700
From:      Deepwell Internet <freebsd@deepwell.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cluster service in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990408094217.012328a0@mail1.dcomm.net>

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I'd like to look into striping and mirroring under FreeBSD 3.1.  If any of
you have any recommendations I'd love to hear them.


At 08:40 AM 4/7/99 -0600, you wrote:
>For load balancing, you can take a look at:
>http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/
>
>I have built several firewalls with FreeBSD and planning for failure is
>more an issue of planning for hardware failure, as these machines just
>do not crash.  I do set up mirroring with ccd (details on what I learned
>about ccd are at http://www.i-pi.com/~ingham/ccd.html) to deal with the
>possibility of a disk failure.  I have heard that there is a new
>mirroring facility in 3.x, but my firewall machines are all running
>2.2.x.
>
>The biggest problem I have had is on a mail server with procmail as a
>local delivery agent.  Procmail wants to have the whole message in memory
>at once, and people at one of my sites have no concept of file size or
>transmission time (over 56KB lines), so emailing 50MB documents is a
>somewhat common event.  With a 16MB P120, swap space is a requirement.
>I added an old 400MB disk as swap space and solved the problem.
>
>Kenneth
>
>
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