RE: [SM-USERS] Perf of Pref storage on disk

2003-10-04 Thread p dont think
> I know that prefs can be stored on disk or mysql. Lets say hypothetically, > there are 100,000 users on sm. Anyone thinks that there would be issues > with having it on disk file system instead of mysql or vice versa? MySQL is technically going to be faster in an environment that big. That's rea

Re: [SM-USERS] Perf of Pref storage on disk

2003-10-03 Thread Lee Brink
>> We have 4 (Soon to be 5) Sun V880s with 32G RAM and (IIRC) 8 >> processors @ 750MHz for our IMAP servers > > - do you have the avg/peak load on this machine? This I can't answer. It's one of the gripes I have with the IMAP server administrator: a lack of hard numbers. > - is this machine ded

Re: [SM-USERS] Perf of Pref storage on disk

2003-10-02 Thread rkl
That is good insight - can you tell us the cpu load or avg load on the servers: > We have 4 (Soon to be 5) Sun V880s with 32G RAM and (IIRC) 8 processors @ > 750MHz for our IMAP servers - do you have the avg/peak load on this machine? - is this machine dedicated for mail? - what mailserver softw

Re: [SM-USERS] Perf of Pref storage on disk

2003-10-02 Thread rkl
That's good feedback. On a curious note: - what is the total diskspace usage for all mail users? - what is the hardware (mailserver and squirrelmail) and load on it? - Do you have quota for your users? - What is the limit of attachment size and does users want bigger ones? thanks, -rkl > rlk

Re: [SM-USERS] Perf of Pref storage on disk

2003-10-02 Thread Lee Brink
rlk wrote: > I know that prefs can be stored on disk or mysql. Lets say hypothetically, > there are 100,000 users on sm. Anyone thinks that there would be issues > with having it on disk file system instead of mysql or vice versa? We're using the file system here @ Cornell and with approximately 8