Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:27:52 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net> To: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios <gustavo@ifour.com.br> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: very big mail spool directory Message-ID: <20001215122752.C40179@peorth.iteration.net> In-Reply-To: <3A368F8C.1918684F@ifour.com.br>; from gustavo@ifour.com.br on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:50:20PM %2B0000 References: <3A368F8C.1918684F@ifour.com.br>
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:50:20PM +0000, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios scribbled: | i am planning a very big email server, currently i am planning for about | 8*2^16 users. [snip] | What you wizard have to say about my approach? Why would you not want to have a distributed server in this case? I would distribute the load between 2-4 servers that will easily handle the load, creating vastly greater fault tolerance and redundancy. Incoming SMTP go to several MX'es and into a database server. The master database server would have a slave db server that constantly syncs its files from the master. In the case of primary db server failure, slave becomes the master transparently by a simple ifconfig(8) command (probably some other small config changes that can be automated by a shell script). The db servers cater to POP/IMAP servers. Outgoing SMTP is round robined and should not be too much trouble. So, for projects with less funding, a 3 server distributed system would be much more preferable. If your organization has 8*2^16 servers, it certainly can afford 3 celeron/k6/pIII boxes. (Of course, some people prefer to buy Sun Enterprise10000's...) -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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