On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:26:54AM +0800, Maren S. Leizaola wrote:
Mike, Would you care to share with us what is the Maximum Mail store quota that you guys allocate... on you F760?
Standard is 35MB (we set to 40MB, though, but customers are told 35MB :).
Staff members are set up for 300MB, some of them have 500MB available.
We do a lot on email and we guess in the future we will be moving our mail stores onto something faster that having the queues, logs, mail store, split into 4 drives on SCSI160.
Well, keep the queues, logs on the local drives and use some decent RAID setups, like striping with mirroring, or RAID5 if the implementation is good enough.
Store the data on the NAS using Maildir format.
My concern of using a NAS is that you are still limited to 1Gbit ethernet... Our email system allows users to do searches for their mail boxes that will mean that the host will be pulling up 60MB of mail (in different files) of a NAS.
Okay...and?
60MB over Gbps ethernet isn't that much load in the grand scheme of things.
We have currently a few hundred users testing on the server and it is not an issue but we hope that "hk.com" will be reaching some serious numbers. The mail server is a single machine not multiple. The software we use does not allow us to split the MTA, web etc into different machines unless we pay some serious $$$'s.
Ack!
New software time...