RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-23 Thread email builder
! --- Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: John Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:53 AM > > To: Marc Powell > > Cc: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Marc Powell > >

RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-13 Thread email builder
THANK YOU! > > > work and I only say should because I personally haven't tried > storing > > > PHP session information on an NFS share before. There was some > recent > > > > Then how do you share your session data between more than one web > server? > > You have session data in a database? > >

RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-13 Thread John Madden
> I have not experienced any performance problems with that exact setup. I would say having 36942 email accounts is a pretty good pool to gather data from. I've used a similar setup with >50,000 accounts as well. It sounds to me that you may have had some configuration or hardware issue that you di

Re: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-13 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Wow, must be nice to have that kind of money. :) How does a _switch_ know how to maintain session data for the _application_ layer in _front_ of a web server?? Sounds nice anyway. :) That's old hat on the Foundry ServerIrons & Extreme Networks gear... ---

RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-13 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: John Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:53 AM > To: Marc Powell > Cc: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Marc Powell > Subject: RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect > > > Wh

Re: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-13 Thread John Madden
> If I have more than one IMAP server (at least on different machines), then > how else do I point all IMAP servers to the mail spool beside > NFS/GFS/AFS/etc? The connection from clients (SM, etc) to IMAP will of > course be regular IMAP connections/protocol. Eventually, we have our eye on > Per

RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-13 Thread John Madden
> What is your technical reason for this suggestion and admonition? I've > been storing mail on NFS servers successfully for almost 10 years now > with tens of thousands of active users. I've not experienced any > problems yet and I don't expect to. We tried it over a weekend; NFS performance with

RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-13 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:squirrelmail- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of email builder > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 1:01 AM > To: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect &

RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-12 Thread email builder
> > > but for > > > heaven's sake, don't point your imapd at an NFS export. > > > > If I have more than one IMAP server (at least on different machines), > then > > how else do I point all IMAP servers to the mail spool beside > > NFS/GFS/AFS/etc? The connection from clients (SM, etc) to IMAP wil

RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-12 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:squirrelmail- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of email builder > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:36 PM > To: John Madden > Cc: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing an

Re: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-12 Thread email builder
--- John Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are a small biz that wants to start implementing clustering of our > > services, but not sure if LVS is necessary just yet. We are starting > with > > just two boxes with both HTTPD/SquirrelMail and MTA/IMAP on both boxes > with > > NFS-based ba

RE: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-12 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:squirrelmail- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Madden > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 4:37 PM > To: email builder > Cc: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net; email builder > Subject: Re: [SM-USERS] R

Re: [SM-USERS] Re: Load Balancing and session side effect

2005-05-12 Thread John Madden
> We are a small biz that wants to start implementing clustering of our > services, but not sure if LVS is necessary just yet. We are starting with > just two boxes with both HTTPD/SquirrelMail and MTA/IMAP on both boxes with > NFS-based backend on a 3rd machine. We'll put all mail spools and S