my isp runs a 50000 user mail server ( pop and smtp separate )
smtp are 3 suns doing round robin and qmail
pop is a sunsparc with 2 ultrasparc 250 cpus 512meg of ram and a 10gig
spool ( more or less) and qmail
At 07:42 AM 5/16/98 +0800, you wrote:
>Dear Earl
>
>Please email me the script to create the hashed dir structure.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Peter
>
>At 07:18 PM 5/15/98 -0400, Earl Sammons wrote:
>>Peter,
>>
>>I think most of your questions have been covered but I'll give you my 2
>>cents from experience. I run a mail server for an isp w/ over 4k mail
>>spools. One thing that helped us out that both cucipop (for sure) and
>>qpopper (so I'm told) will let you do is to hash /var/spool/mail so as
>>not to have so many files in one dir. In other words user "foo" would
>>have mail in /var/spool/mail/f/o/ . Other than that:
>>
>>Don't skimp on ram, go for 512MB
>>Don't skimp on controller, get Buslogic
>>
>>I have a script to create the hashed dir structure. Let me know if you
>>decide to go that route and I'll send it your way.
>>
>>Good luck!
>>
>>--earl
>>-------------------------------------------------------------
>>Earl W. Sammons II 333 Office Sq. Ln. Suite 103
>>Email Administrator Virginia Beach, Va. 23462
>>Exis Net, Inc. http://www.exis.net
>> - = Perl, the ductape of the internet = -
>>-------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>On Fri, 15 May 1998, Peter Chen wrote:
>>
>>>- Now am I too ambitious?
>>>- Can a Red Hat Linux box handle the load of a heavy mail server serving
>>>4000+ clients?
>>>- Can a stock Red Hat 5.0 sendmail 8.8.7 handle so many users, for
>>>example, more than 2000 concurrent SMTP connections? Or should I recompile
>>>the sendmail?
>>>- Should I patch kernel 2.0.33 with file-descriptor patch and recompile a
>>>new kernel?
>>>- Can a Pentium II 233Mhz, Intel 440LX chipset, 256MB RAM, Asustek SC875
>>>UW SCSI controller, two IBM Ultrastar 9GB UW SCSI hard disks do the job?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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