On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:27:13PM +0100, Thomas Hager wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:23, Etienne Goyer wrote: > > Very interesting ... I am building a Murder whee we expect a similar > > load. Could you expand a bit on the hardware used ? > we use compaq dl360g3 on all machines. they are equipped with 2x Intel > Xeon 2.8GHz and 2GB RAM. 4 70GB hdds are configured as 2 raid0 devices. > one holds the message store, the other holds the system partitions. > > > Are these machine > > mostly IO, memory or CPU bound ? > IO bound. both cpus are 80%-90% idle. memory usage is moderate.
Very interesting ... we expect a similar load (~30K active users) on similar hardware, except the mupdate master will run on a separate machine. I suppose you run your MTAs on the frontend, as such that's where the bottleneck is ? How are your backends doing so far ? -- Etienne Goyer Linux Québec Technologies Inc. http://www.LinuxQuebec.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]