hardware for cyrus murder

[Etienne Goyer]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:26:58PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> > > but it reaches its limits in very busy hours. usually the cyrus internal
> > > authentication begins to fail. backends and mupdate slaves can no longer
> 
> Looks like an overloaded LDAP backend to me...
> 
> I've seen this enough on our systems that I use sasldb+ldap, with all
> internal users (cyrus admins, etc) in sasldb, and the real users in ldap....

Exactly what we planned on doing too.  Did it made a big difference to
you to have internal (i guess admin, proxy and mupdate) users in sasldb?
 
> MTAs on other hosts (to free up IO) were a big help here.  We just ship the
> messages thorugh TCP/IP lmtp from the MTA hubs to the mail store...

We planned on running multiple MTA, one by frontend (2), to get some
redundancy.  I'll keep the idea in mind, in case the frontend choke up.

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Etienne Goyer                    Linux Québec Technologies Inc.
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