Solaris to Linux move

[Scott]

Etienne Goyer wrote:

> Scott wrote:
>
>> Right now I have a Sun box that has been running Cyrus for about 4 
>> years.  The box has 8 Sparc v9 @ 400MHz and 6GB of memory.  About 2 
>> years ago we put all of the mail queue, DB, seen and sub files onto a 
>> 2GB solid state drive.  This setup has been running fine, supporting 
>> about 20K webmail users.  The mail store is on a NetApp that has a 
>> 1TB LUN direct FC connection.
>
>
> 8-way machine, 6 GB of RAM, database on solid-state drive and mail 
> spool on an FC array ... I don't know all the specific, but that seem 
> like pretty good hardware to me.  Is there a particuliar reason why 
> you want to move off your Sun box ?  Do you have specific performance 
> problems ?

The Sun configuration has never broken, though I am nearly always 
running at peak IO.  I highly suspect that this is due to the S-Bus on 
the Sun box.  The main reason to switch is the end of life status of the 
Sun box.  I don't have any spare parts to speak of.  If it dies I'm in 
serious trouble.  The powers that be are not open to the idea of buying 
spares via eBay.