[nycbug-talk] NFS in FreeBSD

[pete wright]

On 1/3/06, Francisco Reyes <lists at stringsutils.com> wrote:
> pete wright writes:
>
> >> will be RAID 10.
>
>
> > yea that should help, although I imagine with POP/IMAP connections
> > disk I/O will not begin to be a bottleneck until you get many
> > connections.  But heck, why not plan for scalability when you can ;)
>
> On average our mail servers have 100+ Imap/POp3 (combined) connections.. on
> a day like today where everyone came back to work we had 200+.. with some
> scary peaks at 300+
>
> All of that connecting to an NFS box (..total about 600 to 1000 users) does
> create significant traffic. :-)
>

yea I can imagine :^)

we run our mail cluster off a san type architecture...two shelves of
fiber chan. storage hung off the mail cluster.  it removes the NFS
bottleneck...granted it is kinda pricy though.

-p



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