Re: Cyrus on 64-bit RHEL 5

2009-04-13 Thread Simon Matter
> Thanks all, for the input. My post had a typo - we aren't currently on > RHEL 5. We're on RHEL 3. RHEL 3/i386 to RHEL 5/x86_64 is the exact path > we are going. > > We're already running skiplist across the board so based on what we've > read/heard we don't expect any trouble in that regard. >

Re: Cyrus on 64-bit RHEL 5

2009-04-13 Thread John Widera
Thanks all, for the input. My post had a typo - we aren't currently on RHEL 5. We're on RHEL 3. RHEL 3/i386 to RHEL 5/x86_64 is the exact path we are going. We're already running skiplist across the board so based on what we've read/heard we don't expect any trouble in that regard. Our plan is

Re: Cyrus on 64-bit RHEL 5

2009-04-13 Thread John Madden
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 23:49 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > I'm not a fan of running anything that needs good performance on any > kind > of virtualization. At least you me really check that you get good IO > performance out of it. FWIW, building from source on RHEL 5 on a Xen DomU with 6 cores and 2

Re: Cyrus on 64-bit RHEL 5

2009-04-11 Thread Simon Matter
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:49:54PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: >> However, you may search the archives because I think there can be >> problems >> with certain database backends (BDB) when doing the migration. The RPM >> should still take care of it because it converts all BDB to skiplist on >> sh

Re: Cyrus on 64-bit RHEL 5

2009-04-10 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:49:54PM +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > However, you may search the archives because I think there can be problems > with certain database backends (BDB) when doing the migration. The RPM > should still take care of it because it converts all BDB to skiplist on > shutdown to

Re: Cyrus on 64-bit RHEL 5

2009-04-10 Thread Simon Matter
> Can anyone share with us their production experience with running Cyrus in > a virtual (ESX?) env., and/or experience with running Cyrus (Simon > Matter's RPMs, optimally) in a 64-bit Linux OS? I'm not a fan of running anything that needs good performance on any kind of virtualization. At least

Re: Cyrus on 64-bit RHEL 5

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Fisher
John Widera wrote: > > Can anyone share with us their production experience with running > Cyrus in a virtual (ESX?) env., and/or experience with running Cyrus > (Simon Matter's RPMs, optimally) in a 64-bit Linux OS? Berkeley runs Simon Matter's RPMs on 64-bit (x86-64) RHEL5, and we haven't had an

Cyrus on 64-bit RHEL 5

2009-04-10 Thread John Widera
We are in the planning stage of a major mail systems upgrade. We've been running Cyrus on 32-bit RHEL 5 for some time now. We are considering 2 major changes that could impact administration and performance. 1) we're considering running Cyrus under VMware ESX Server. We have one Cyrus installio